25/02/2016 The Papers

This is BBC News. We will look at the papers in just a moment but

first, the headlines. A damning report says the BBC missed

multiple chances to stop sex It says some junior staff knew

about the allegations but a culture of fear stopped them

taking it further. The culture

of the BBC certainly enabled both Savile and Stuart Hall

to go undetected for decades. The BBC Director General admits

senior managers could have known about the crimes committed

by Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall. It was a dark chapter

in the history of the organisation but a much darker one

for all of you, the BBC failed you then it should

have protected you. In the fallout, veteran DJ

Tony Blackburn leaves the BBC

amid a row about his co-operation He says he's been

made a 'scapegoat'. In Sportsday, the Europa League

results. Manchester United, are they still in the competition? Tottenham

and Liverpool playing this evening, a James Milner penalties seeing

Liverpool through to the draw for the last 16. And we will have the

six Nations rugby and there is a ding-dong at the boxing.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

With me are the columnist for the Independent,

James Rampton, and the broadcaster Stephanie Hirst.

I'm sure that James is known to all and sundry, but Stephanie is here

for the first time. Not looking too anxious! The i newspaper, the BBC

saying they are to blame after a report on the activities of Jimmy

Savile and Stuart Hall. The metro newspaper, the lawyer for many of

the victims accusing the report of being a whitewash.

The Guardian describes the BBC and Tony Blackburn of being at war

According to the FT, the Chancellor George Osborne

is pushing the Group of 20 leading economies to warn about the dangers

The Independent reports Theresa May is planning to broaden

powers to deport people with dual nationality found guilty of abuse.

The Telegraph says family doctors will be told that they are wrongly

diagnosing hundreds of thousands of children with asthma.

We will begin with several of the front pages focusing on Dame Janet

Smith's report into the activities of Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall

within the BBC. We start with the i, the director-general making a

apology after a scathing report into Savile and Hall. A harrowing day for

the victims. Yes, it is very good what was said, that the BBC failed

to protect them, it is right that Tony Hall made a public apology and

I believe that lawyer for presenting many victims were pleased that it

had been said. As the Metro points out, there is a belief among some

victims that it has been an expensive whitewash, costing ?6.5

million, running to 1000 pages and still no one is named as being

culpable, passing on information that they might have known about.

Some of the details Dame Janet has unearthed are really shocking,

Television Centre complaints to her Television Centre complaints to her

supervisor in the 80s that they had been sexually assaulted by Jimmy

Savile and they were told, keep your mouth shut, he's a VIP. Shopping.

When I -- shocking. When I heard that, it is like they created a

monster. Some papers are asking whether there are other people in

other organisations who may be predatory paedophiles. That was the

setting thing I'm sure for many people to hear, whatever the BBC's

values as an organisation at the time, they were regarded as much as

a priority as the celebrities, talent, the work that is still used.

Metro talking about the outrage. How relevant is it that individuals were

not named in the report? It is suggested that Dame Janet did not

have the legal power to oblige people to justify which may be part

of the problem, but the lawyer representing 168 Savile victims asks

whether it is plausible to imagine this did not reach the upper edge

alums of the BBC? She says many will feel that it is an expensive

whitewash. -- upper edge alums -- upper levels. Jimmy Savile allegedly

used to say to people "You can't touch me, I know the Archbishop of

Canterbury, the Prince of Wales." He boasted about these people. This

persona. It made him seem untouchable. How much has society

changed, how much more do we listen these days? It has changed a lot, I

understand that Tony Hall and Janet Smith have not said this, but it is

a different time, but that is no excuse because there are survivors.

There is a lot more for the BBC to do and the i say that the NSPCC are

being brought in to insure that children are protected. That's great

because the most important thing firstly is to apologise to the

victims and try and bring about some closure for them. Next, make sure it

doesn't happen again. If the NSPCC can help, that's brilliant. The

Daily Express have a different direction, saying the BBC has hung

Tony Blackburn out to dry, according to him. The evidence he gave to Dame

Janet Smith was regarded as being substandard. I'm surprised they have

gone with this headline rather than the standard BBC headline. Or all of

the things they could have chosen to run with. The Guardian as well. My

take on it, it has to be something that is new. This time yesterday we

didn't know about this Tony Blackburn story, so this is new news

for the papers. We knew about Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall, but the

Blackbird angle is new which is why some papers have gone with it

because people won't have heard it. -- Tony Blackburn. He says he's

talking to his lawyers potential legal action. George Osborne

pressing Finance ministers to warn against Brexit, this is the G20

leading economies. A really good thing. It depends on your view! A

bit sensitive about bias here, Stefanie! Sorry, I will try not to

leap in quite so quickly. Trying to gather support. For me, I think

staying in the EU is the right thing because if you look at what the

economy was like five years ago, leading us down a path where we may

not be in the situation now where businesses are flourishing again,

the economy is getting back again. I hate to do it, but I absolutely

agree with you. Oh, dear. What has been dubbed this morning a Romaniac,

poultry and kind to those of us who want to remain but I think those of

us who want to remain ideological, it would send a terrible message to

detach ourselves from Europe, it would make us seem insular, if not

xenophobic. I feel quite passionate about it that we shouldn't exit. I

respect the fact that people feel passion of the other way but that's

my opinion and I'm glad that George Osborne is going to try and put it

in the G20 communique. People feel we have lost sovereignty to Europe,

we have laws foisted on us that are not of our choosing, not controlling

our borders, immigration levels, we can't control them because we are

part of the EU, they are powerful arguments for those who are voting

in the referendum. They will be, but I think that when I look at the

bigger picture, I think of the damage that could be done if we

leave, I think is the right thing to stay. This is perhaps an emotional

response but Angela Merkel last year said that this is the first time in

Europe's history, 70 years without a walk and that is partly down to the

EU. We are cooperating -- without a war. Within the EU, there hasn't

been... Between France, Germany, Spain, Holland, we had been fighting

for two millennia, and 70 years is the longest period in Western Europe

where we have not had a war. That's why the EU has made a difference, I

would argue. Let's move on, please! Sorry to be such a remainiac. Powers

designed to fight terrorism, sex abusers to be stripped of UK

citizenship. This is coming off the back of something in the news

yesterday. The Home Secretary is planning to significantly increase

her department's use of legal powers allowing serious criminals with dual

nationality to have their British and ship -- British citizenship

withdrawn because of Asian sex gangs. This is people who may be

born in another place? The potential for them, what would happen? They

would be deported to the country of their birth. What intrigues me, a

line at the end, David Greenwood, a solicitor representing some of the

victims, said that this is the tip of a very big iceberg. I find that

really scary. This is a shocking case, sending shock waves through

the country, the depravity and cruelty that these men inflicted on

the young girls, and that this may be the beginning of the story, that

shakes me to think about. The abuse of predominately white girls by

mainly Asian men has lead to prosecutions across the North of

England and the Midlands, and more trials to come. That's it, not a

particularly... Sorry! Welcome to the paper review! We will try and

find something with a bit more levity, can't promise. James and

Stephanie will be back, hopefully with opinions that differ on certain

subjects, at 11:30pm. Stay with us. Coming up next, Sportsday.