The latest Telegraph report on Donald Trump’s $10 billion dollar defamation action against the BBC presents the Corporation as moving decisively onto the offensive. It is seeking access to Trump’s private communications and to material gathered by Jack Smith, the former US Special Counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump’s actions surrounding the 2020 election and the alleged attack on the Capitol …
‘Dianarama’ – the conspiracy of deceit exposé that should sign the BBC’s death warrant
THERE are moments when an institution’s mask slips so completely that it can never truly be put back on. Former BBC journalist Andy Webb’s scorching book Dianarama, published last week, is such a moment for the BBC. On top of the unfolding and escalating scandal about the Prescott dossier, which concludes that the BBC Board (and its predecessors, the Trustees and …
Hall and Birt deny responsibility for Bashir fiasco
THE Lord Dyson report established that the BBC acted appallingly in its handling in 1995 of the interview of Princess Diana. Prince William reacted by stating that it showed his mother had been ‘deceived’ and asserted that ‘the ripple effect of (the BBC’s) culture of exploitation and unethical practices ultimately took her life’. He also said: ‘She was failed not …