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Originally Posted by Damien
This whole thing has become far too focused on the BBC alone. We're talking all the time about the decision to drop a Newsnight investigation and little about the fact that Saville abused several girls. The entire story has been hijacked for the purposes of pushing against the BBC.
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I don't think the BBC bloodletting is a bad thing. We've gone through the search for evidence of a cover up - there isn't any - and on to Peter Rippon's reasons for spiking the report, which seem to me to be a reflection of the very attitudes that allowed Saville's activities to carry on in BBC premises over so many years.
The other institutions where Savile abused girls will all have questions to answer but the BBC is a national institution which finds its way into every home in the country and its activities are directly paid for by all of us.