The BBC have said that the editor of Newsnight is “stepping aside” following his decision drop a report into claims about Sir Jimmy Saville's sexual abuse.
The BBC said that the move involving Peter Rippon was happening with immediate effect after it issued a correction to a blog entry by Mr Rippon in which he explained his reasons for dropping the report, due to editorial reasons, to be “inaccurate or incomplete in some aspects.”
While the police inquiry into the claims made against Saville will continue for some time, incidents like this will only further damage and sully the reputation of the BBC, who many see as covering things up and failing to intervene and prevent wrongdoing.
More details about what the BBC did and didn’t know will be laid bare in a panorama special tonight and that programme will no doubt spark a frenzy of new questions and accusations, which will seemingly leave several BBC figures past and present with a lot to answer for.
At the moment the whole scale of this investigation means we are getting more questions than answers, hopefully tonight we will see a move towards the truth and the answers, and not be left with even more questions.
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