BBC News Scandal: How Big of a Threat to British Journalism?
Posted: 11/13/2012 | By: Ben Quinn | The Christian Science Monitor
Disciplinary action is underway today against BBC
staff involved in a botched report on its flagship current affairs
show, as the corporation struggles to get a grip on one of its worst
crises and perhaps the greatest challenge to its prestige in its 90-year
history.
The scandal, which led to the resignation of the new BBC director general on Saturday after just 54 days on the job, and which may yet result in the departure of the chairman of the independent trust that governs the news organization, centers on two separate items prepared for the “Newsnight” current affairs TV program.
The scandal, which led to the resignation of the new BBC director general on Saturday after just 54 days on the job, and which may yet result in the departure of the chairman of the independent trust that governs the news organization, centers on two separate items prepared for the “Newsnight” current affairs TV program.