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The Secret Truth: Jimmy Saville and the BBC
Oct 23, 2012: 5:30 am - 6am
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"A senior journalist who was part of the original Newsnight expose into Jimmy Saville child-abuse allegations warned the BBC director general not to cover-up why the report was dropped. The leaked email suggests BBC chief George Entwistle ignored a pressing plea from investigative reporter Liz MacKean, about his ‘misleading statements’ regarding the content of the cancelled programme. He declined to speak to Ms MacKean about the matter despite her urgent email sent 12 days ago but has since spoken to senior BBC management about her version of events. Jimmy Savile has been described as one of the most prolific child sex abusers of all time More than 200 people have come forward to say they were abused by the TV star In the email to the director general, seen by The Independent, she said: ‘Worst of all has been what seems like a concerted effort to make it appear that our story was about something else, something that could be dropped and forgotten ahead of fulsome tribute programmes. 'It is this which seems to be fuelling the damaging claims of a cover-up.’ The damaging leaked email comes ahead of a Panorama investigation into Jimmy Savile, due to air on Monday, which is expected to look into why the BBC dropped its original Newsnight report on the TV star last year. But Mr Entwistle has refused to be interviewed for the programme - citing legal advice that he should restrict his statements to the police, official inquiries and a commons committee hearing on Tuesday. MPs are now demanding that every BBC email linked to the decision by Newsnight to drop an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s abuse of teenage girls should be made public. Correspondence leading all the way to the top of the corporation should be disclosed in a bid to retain public trust, they insisted. It follows the emergence of a leaked e-mail which appears to cast more doubt on the BBC’s stated reason on why the current affairs show dropped the programme. More... How Savile even abused his own sister's grandchild: His great niece reveals the scandal's most sickening twist yet - and how he bribed his sister to cover it up Arrests loom as police investigate Savile’s ‘living’ accomplices and those who covered-up the sex scandal as more than 200 victims are identified ."
"A senior journalist who was part of the original Newsnight expose into Jimmy Saville child-abuse allegations warned the BBC director general not to cover-up why the report was dropped. The leaked email suggests BBC chief George Entwistle ignored a pressing plea from investigative reporter Liz MacKean, about his ‘misleading statements’ regarding the content of the cancelled programme. He declined to speak to Ms MacKean about the matter despite her urgent email sent 12 days ago but has since spoken to senior BBC management about her version of events. Jimmy Savile has been described as one of the most prolific child sex abusers of all time More than 200 people have come forward to say they were abused by the TV star In the email to the director general, seen by The Independent, she said: ‘Worst of all has been what seems like a concerted effort to make it appear that our story was about something else, something that could be dropped and forgotten ahead of fulsome tribute programmes. 'It is this which seems to be fuelling the damaging claims of a cover-up.’ The damaging leaked email comes ahead of a Panorama investigation into Jimmy Savile, due to air on Monday, which is expected to look into why the BBC dropped its original Newsnight report on the TV star last year. But Mr Entwistle has refused to be interviewed for the programme - citing legal advice that he should restrict his statements to the police, official inquiries and a commons committee hearing on Tuesday. MPs are now demanding that every BBC email linked to the decision by Newsnight to drop an investigation into Jimmy Savile’s abuse of teenage girls should be made public. Correspondence leading all the way to the top of the corporation should be disclosed in a bid to retain public trust, they insisted. It follows the emergence of a leaked e-mail which appears to cast more doubt on the BBC’s stated reason on why the current affairs show dropped the programme. More... How Savile even abused his own sister's grandchild: His great niece reveals the scandal's most sickening twist yet - and how he bribed his sister to cover it up Arrests loom as police investigate Savile’s ‘living’ accomplices and those who covered-up the sex scandal as more than 200 victims are identified ."