Thursday, May 20, 2021

News management

It's probably not going to go down well with fans of The One Show, but apparently, the only slot BBC Content Portfolio Controllers could find for the very-publicly-delayed Panorama is 7pm tonight. 

"25 years ago, Panorama reporter Martin Bashir secured his global scoop interview with Princess Diana. Now, a new Panorama team fronted by journalist John Ware has carried out its own four-month investigation, with exclusive interviews and revelations from internal BBC documents. This is the inside story of how Martin Bashir obtained his career-defining interview, and how the BBC responded when it discovered he’d faked bank statements and shown them to Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer."

It's been a tricky couple of weeks for Editor-in-chief Tim Davie, who has presumably had to explain to the Panorama team how his duty of care is different today to what it was last Friday. 

I was taken with this online comment, sent to The Times. "In my early career as a newspaper court reporter, I was regularly approached by solicitors pleading that their client was in a vulnerable mental state and at risk of committing suicide unless we pulled coverage of their case. Thankfully I had an editor with principles. We never did. And they never did. "

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