Former BBC Controller of Editorial Policy Richard Ayre has been very forceful in recent interviews, suggesting that if he had know about reporters using forgeries in pursuit of stories, his instinct would be that such activity fell outside 'fair dealing', and they should have been sacked.
The Daily Mail today has copies of the fuller internal Lord Hall report from 1996, which also mentions Bashir's Panorama on Terry Venables. Tony Hall decided the producer of that programme deserved a severe reprimand for "use of a mock-background to a graphic", and that "Richard Ayre will draw up 2 guidelines to cover: a) the use of reconstructed material b) the payment of people who supply information to investigative programmes".
Was Richard more involved in the Bashir investigation than we thought ?
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