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Is i think it still tends to be too defensive when some criticism is aired. and we saw that actually... it's interesting. for anyone listening, i've never seen all the panellists nodding so much. it's worth pointing out martin bashir did say, "obviously i regret what i did. "it was wrong." he says it had no bearing on anything... that's absolutely not true. ..meaning diana going on to do the interview. we are out of time. to dorothy byrne, richard tait, jane martinson, david yelland and john ware, thank you all for your time today. you have been listening to the media show. i am mobeen azhar. ...

What i'm sure about is that we don't need extra committees of old white blokes — no offence, men, to those i can see here — all sitting around opining. we need strong, independent journalism, and if mistakes are made, they need to be remedied as quickly as possible. you know, one of the scandals here was that it's taken so long for the truth to be admitted by the bbc. not actually for the truth to come out, because we've known the key points here. so, i've heard people call for some massive new regulatory framework, but i'm not sure that that is what we need. thank you. john, you're on the...

The Lies Told to Speak to a Princess Photo by Mathieu Polak/Sygma/ Sygma via Getty Images It was 26 years ago, but I vividly remember the night Princess Diana gave an interview to BBC journalist Martin Bashir. I was allowed to stay up late to watch it — after my parents deemed it a “historical moment.” So I, along with 23 million other Brits (probably not all in paw print pajamas), watched, aghast, as a wide-eyed Princess Diana gave her first-hand account of the soap opera that had been played out in the British tabloid press — the breakdown of her marriage.  As a child, I never con...

Questions about the journalists’s record were not addressed by those who gave him his most recent job, says Panorama reporter

Can you kind of give us a... notion of context? i think an editor... well, i will answer that by saying this, i think. an editor sets a culture. and, you know, you have to be prepared to be unpopular, - and i was very unpopular| within my own newsroom because i was quite conservative . after having had my fingers burned in the first year. now, i knew steve hewlett very well, iwasn't a friend, but i really- liked him and got on well with him. but i do think it's important to say that the politics within panorama. have always been toxic. everybody knows that. in fact, there are two big toxic ins...