BBC Report Finds No Proof of Cover-up in Savile Scandal
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The British Broadcasting Corp. will replace the senior editorial team of its current-affairs program “Newsnight” because of errors in investigative reports into child sex abuse allegations.
The editors “fell short of what was expected” first in canceling a probe into abuse claims against the late Jimmy Savile, an entertainer who had worked at the BBC for decades, and again when it published an erroneous report implying that retired U.K. politician Alistair McAlpine had molested a child, the BBC executive board said today.
The shakeup is the BBC’s reaction to a two-month probe, led by former British Sky Broadcasting Group head of news Nick Pollard, that said problems with the BBC’s “rigid” management structure and sharing information contributed to a breakdown in decision making. But the report also said that no undue pressure was put on editors to drop the investigation into Mr. Savile, which would have aired last year.
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