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BBC on pins and needles after Diana interview probe sullies its repute By Saturday May 22, 2021 BBCs Martin Bashir used forged documents to obtain the interview with Diana, the inquiry found The BBC was under pressure on Friday after unprecedented criticism from the royal family about its 1995 interview with Princess Diana, damaging its reputation as it fights attacks on several fronts. An independent inquiry concluded the corporation failed to adequately probe its reporter Martin Bashirs use...

The BBCs media editor Amol Rajan on Thursday night said the report left the BBC severely injured, probably scarred

Last modified on Sat 22 May 2021 06.54 EDT The BBC should consider paying compensation to whistleblowers whose careers were affected after raising concerns about Martin Bashir following his Panorama interview with Diana, Princess of Wales and needs to be transparent about why he was rehired, a senior Tory MP has said. In his report released on Thursday, Lord Dyson found Bashir had commissioned fake bank statements that falsely suggested people were being paid to monitor Diana so as to gain acce...

However, experts believe that the government does not have the power to institute governance procedures that would impact programme-making or influence output. “The government cannot make changes that affect individual programmes, micro-level governance, but they can change the powers they currently have, such as Ofcom could act without waiting for official complaints,” says Steven Barnett, professor of communications at the University of Westminster. Is the government likely to seek signif...

An independent probe found that journalist Martin Bashir lied to persuade Diana to agree to the interview in which she disclosed intimate details of her failed marriage to Prince Charles.

The interrogation of Diana’s interviews sparks a new crisis of confidence in the BBC The Welsh princess also put Diana in crisis before the BBC Panorama the interview was given, lies and forged documents were revealed and the UK announcer dragged him 25 years later into another scandal over editorial standards and cover culture. Recorded on Guy Fawkes Day 1995 and secretly edited at an Eastbourne hotel, journalist Martin Bashir’s super-ball was initially understood to be a historic bet by...

RICHARD KAY: Many of the Princesss circle believed Martin Bashir had duped or tricked her into giving her interview in the first place, while questions were being asked in the BBC about his ethics.

  Everybody loves good Neighbours? It is a much-loved series, having captured the hearts of UK viewers since it began airing here in 1986, spawning the careers of Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, as well as Hollywood stars Margot Robbie and Guy Pearce.   The Brits went bananas for it? The soap, set in Ramsay Street, was shown at lunchtime on BBC1 and repeated the following morning, until BBC Controller Michael Grade’s daughter advised him to move the repeat to a teatime slot as her ...

Farrukh Dhondy | My adventures with Oprah, the real queen of Yankeeland Published : Mar 13, 2021, 4:10 am IST Updated : Mar 13, 2021, 4:10 am IST Interviews with royals are like a virus plague, you don’t want to catch them, but you can’t avoid hearing all about them  We take skin colourism as a nasty ingredient of our prejudices -- which we shouldn’t. (Photo: AP) “Did the Lord God give us noses For people to rub in our mistakes? And did he grant us toeses So we could stub them, f...

No, The BBC Isn’t Anti-Semitic. But It Must Realise Jews Do Count The BBC I’ve worked with for decades isn’t institutionally racist. But the Politics Live controversy shows some there don’t see Jews as a minority, writes Gaby Koppel. This week has seen an explosion of indignation from British Jews after BBC2’s Politics Live asked four non-Jewish panellists to discuss ‘should Jews Count as an ethnic minority?’  For the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the question was insensitiv...