10/11/2012 BBC Weekend News


10/11/2012

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Good afternoon. The Director General of the BBC George Entwistle

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has said that a Newsnight report which led an un-named senior

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Conservative politician being wrongly implicated in a child abuse

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scandal on the internet should not have been broadcast. The BBC Trust

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said it was a deeply troubling episode and that it expects the

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Director General to get to the bottom of the matter with the

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utmost urgency. A new crisis for Newsnight. Tonight

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this programme apologises. A key allegation in a report about child

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abuse was wrong. The victim said he was mistaken.

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The BBC apology last night on Newsnight. Under fire already for

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not showing an investigation into child abuse by Jimmy Savile, it has

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now had to apologise for an investigation it did broadcast.

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Stephen mission, a former resident of an care home in Wales, claimed

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he had been assaulted for a buyer a politician on the Thatcher era and

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he thought it was Lord McAlpine. Many on the engine that named him.

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The director-general said the programme should have checked.

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was our responsibility to make sure that any misrepresentation ended up

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on television. We did not manage to do that and we take the blame for

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that, no question about it. He said he had not known about the

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Newsnight broadcast in advance but other senior executives had. It is

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difficult to understand how, as the director-general described it this

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morning, it got through the whole editorial process all the way to

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news board level, which means that senior eyes were looking at this.

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It does seem quite strange that this piece of journalism got air.

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As this morning's headlines show, the BBC is now facing more

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questions, not just about its journalism but about the way the

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organisation is run. Talks in Brussels on the European

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Union's budget have broken down. Negotiators for EU governments and

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the European Parliament failed to agree a request for extra money to

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fill a funding gap for this year. The director of the Central

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Intelligence Agency David Petraeus has resigned after admitting to an

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extra-marital affair. He had been in charge of the CIA for just over

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a year following a military career in which he was credited with

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successes in both Iraq and Afghanistan. A new vaccination

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programme is to be introduced across the UK to protect babies

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against rotavirus, a a highly contagious vomiting and diarrhoea

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