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Welcome to Newswatch. If I am Samira Ahmed. Sexual abuse

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allegations against Sir Jimmy Sandor Earl. But why did none the

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BBC view the documentary a year ago with similar accusations. Also, how

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on to report has sent to cover lengthy live events fill the air

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time with inane questioning, according to some viewers. Back in

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the 1970, Jimmy Saville was one of the best-known television

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personalities in Britain. This week, his reputation is in tatters after

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a stream of allegations he abused teenage girls. The BBC is also

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under question because some of the offences were set here and partly

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also because it is accused of being slow in the investigation. This

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week's had line sprang from a documentary in which five women

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said five women had been sexually assaulted and it has emerged a

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programme had been pursuing its investigation last year but that

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report was dropped. Some of US detected a lack of enthusiasm by

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part of the BBC. One him out us to say they instead of burying our

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heads in the sand, we should launch an investigation. Another added,

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your silence is very telling. You are starting to look complicit. In

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a moment, are will be speaking to the BBC director of editorial

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standards but first to another viewer. Can you sum up your

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concern? Did you feel the BBC was covering the story well? I felt

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that when it first hit the news, it was a main headline whereas the BBC

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had no news about it and for which I thought was very odd. It made it

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very uncomfortable. Immediately one thought there was some form of

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cover-up because it was a big thing but it was not presented as such.

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Hence, I wrote to the BBC. I thought there may have been some

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form of cover up because it was not broadcast. What is the feeling

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about the investigation last year from the BBC that was dropped?

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is such a long time ago now but they should have been the first to

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react to anything like that, to clear their name, poor themselves

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in the forefront of the investigation. -- put themselves.

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The BBC role should have been at the forefront rather than reacting?

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Indeed. What you think of the BBC now? I think they are moving

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forward and they have woken up to the fact that this is a serious

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matter and all the people that have come forward so far have something

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to say and if there are allegations, BBC must delve into that and go

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back and find out what they knew and bring these things to prove or

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disprove. Representing the BBC is a David Jordan. The question remains,

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the attitude to the story looked suspicious. Can I deal with the

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fact that we have been accused of being slow to pick the story up. We

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do not get information about what other news programmes again to show.

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The BBC was much slower than newspapers and other outlets.

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think the story was featured in every one of their news programmes.

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It has been at the story for ITV. The decision to drop an

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investigation also looks very odd. The editor of Newsnight also

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explains that what they were looking at was the way in which the

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Surrey police had investigated the Jimmy Saville in 2007. You look at

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ITV, they have a 3 million viewers. The story was also about Jimmy

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Savell. They were investigating the police investigation. They had made

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recommendations to the Crown Prosecution and subsequently it had

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been dropped because they thought there was a lack of evidence. We

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can argue about whether you or I had or would have taken at

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different... Everyone else is reporting it. It looks if nothing

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else that the BBC was not good at gathering information. The editor

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has to make the decision on the fact and we do not know what facts

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he had at his disposal. He made an honest decision. He decided that

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was not the angle he wanted to pursue. It is difficult to say it

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was a mistake given we were not there. Somebody else might have

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made a different decision. Clearly the documentary on Wednesday night

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made a different decision. Newsnight could run a story now but

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given that the story is out there now, there is a limit at reason to

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do so. Why does not Newsnight show the programme now? The fundamentals

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of the story are now well established. We know a number of

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women were appallingly sexually abused by Jimmy Savell in the BBC

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premises.. There is concern about the damage to the BBC. The major

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concern we ought to have is not about the reputation of the BBC,

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there is no suggestion the BBC was complete set, his reputation has

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taken a big hit, the main concern should be for the women who were

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abused in this way and to make sure they have the opportunity to tell

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the story and hopefully put it behind them. Are you satisfied the

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BBC has done everything it can? its look at the situation about the

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people working in the BBC, his colleagues and friends and other

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presenters, who, to me, going by what I saw, it was blatant and

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other people must have seen things going on who have never come

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forward. For whatever reason - a job security, who knows. It has

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been pushed under the table. want to the BBC to investigate its

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staff? It is not for the police to look at. It is for the start to

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come forward to collaborate stories. Thank you to both of you. Do let us

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know your thoughts on that or any other aspects on the BBC. Now for

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some of your other Commons. When they saw two highly distressing

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stories covered live and extensively on the news channels.

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We followed the continued search for April Jones and also we

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followed the funeral of a PC. local resident here, do you know

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April's family and how are they now? We are a small community so

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everyone knows everyone. My thoughts are with them. Let's talk

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to somebody who knew her. She worked with Nicola used. When you

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heard the news about the murder, what was your reaction to that?

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we were very sad. But you're sort those interviews and did little

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more than fill in times between news conferences and services and

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not in the most sensitive ways. She Coverage of the search for April

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Giants lead to more letters. mother of a missing five-year-old

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breaks down in tears as she appeals for the public to help find her

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There was a different. Later that Finally, of those watching

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breakfast on Wednesday morning got rather more than they bargained for

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as an interview began, the voice of a reporter could be heard off-

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camera swearing in terms which An on-air apology was made and the

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BBC later said it was reviewing its procedures. A microphone had been

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