BBC bosses still trying to cover tracks over Savile in 2012, says Andy Kershaw
“I thought [it was] appalling that the Savile investigation by Newsnight was scrapped,” he said. “It had a whiff of senior management still trying to cover their tracks over Savile as late as 2012.”
Kershaw pointed to a claim made by Helen Boaden, the former director of BBC News, that she had made ex-director general Mark Thompson aware of Newsnight’s allegations against Savile.
Thompson denies this is the case; the BBC went on to screen two tributes to Savile following his death in 2011 but buried the Newsnight exposé.
“It has emerged that a conversation was had between the head of news at the time and Mark Thompson,” said Kershaw. “Instead of scrapping those two [tribute] programmes they scrapped the Newsnight programme and hung the editor out to dry.”
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