Thursday, October 1, 2015

Revealed: Panorama’s plans to smear survivors of child abuse

BBC1’s Panorama is planning to attack survivors of child sex abuse and others who are uncovering evidence of a ‘Westminster paedophile network’.

Many journalists at the broadcaster fear that the programme will prompt a backlash because two established cases of VIP paedophiles were among the BBC’s biggest stars – Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall.

They point to how the broadcaster badly let down abuse survivors previously, including one who featured in a Panorama on the pulling of an expose of Savile by BBC2's Newsnight and another at the centre of the latter programme's implicit and mistaken identification of Lord McAlpine, former Conservative treasurer, as a paedophile.

Panorama plans to smear abuse survivors, criticise Exaro and other media over their reports on VIP paedophiles, and undermine MPs who campaigned on the issue.  (more...)


Related:

Sun blocked from exposing Jimmy Savile before his death, court hears

BBC journalists fear backlash from Panorama’s smears of abuse survivors, esp given BBC history with #childsexabuse. http://t.co/oyejQSbrJ4

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