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Originally Posted by Damien
He would have had time to pull the show. He would have waited until it aired. The questions above wouldn't have made a difference and we don't know if he would have had those questions answered. The BBC News department isn't the servant of Entertainment division.
He would also have wanted to avoid any implication that he attempted to influence the editorial decisions at Newsnight. That really would have been bad for him. This is indeed what the BBC detractors were hoping for and what the BBC were scared of.
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All he had to know was what the subject was about and concidering he was the one who would be planning the programming is not really a big ask is it ? and well within his job description considering he was in charge of factual programming