In 1984 Panorama ran an overt hit job on several Tory MP's including Neil Hamilton trying to portray them as 'Nazis'.The allegations were completely false and yet none of the BBC staff involved were suspended or sacked.And nothing changed for years.
The only thing BBC staff got sacked for was making politically incorrect comments a la Carol Thatcher,Danny Baker etc.It did not seem to matter how biased,lazy incompetent etc a BBC employee was long as they were part of the club they were unsackable.
Whether that is changing now will be interesting to watch.The criticism of a lack of diversity of opinion among its staff is beginning to cut home and BBC bosses are clearly increasingly talking about responding.We will see if it is just talk or not.
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August 29
In 1984 Panorama ran an overt hit job on several Tory MP's including Neil Hamilton trying to portray them as 'Nazis'.The allegations were completely false and yet none of the BBC staff involved were suspended or sacked.And nothing changed for years.