In most recent BBC crises, there have been periods when BBC Management have refused to give interviews. The appropriate response from BBC Newsgathering has been to 'doorstep' these managers, to see if that produces a comment; it's usually a fruitless exercise, but it is thought to demonstrate the rigour and independence of their journalism.
So far, in l'affaire Bashir, up until at least The Andrew Marr Show, there've been no interviews with BBC executives, apart from a brief anodyne comment from Tim Davie on the publication of the Dyson Report.
Newsgathering has been renamed News Content. As Head of Newsgathering, Jonathan Munro was pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Bashir as Religious Affairs Correspondent back in 2016. One presumes, as Head of News Content, he's already instructed BBC hacks to doorstep himself.
Nice invitation from @ChrisMasonBBC on #bbcaq “if you want to talk about the BBC on the BBC you can ring the BBC.....”
— Jonathan Munro (@jonathancmunro) May 21, 2021
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