11-15-2012, 03:15 AM
(11-14-2012, 06:12 PM)billy Wrote: it seems some 80 year old bishop has been arrested for the same thing.It is a sad thing. In fairness, the case resulted from investigations into the Chichester diocese, by the Church of England, handed over to the police.
a bishop bashing the bishop...wh'd a thunk it.
Do you not find the gleeful attacks on the BBC galling? There is hysteria all round, but it now seems arguable that, whatever the guy's own reasoning, the initial decision not to go ahead with the Saville Newsnight seems to have been on the money: double-check, and make sure your story stands up.
There is another aspect not once mentioned in all the noise.
The abused man who changed his story, it is said, could have easily prevented the second, defamatory, story going ahead, if only someone had shown him a photo of the man named. Maybe so. But consider this scenario. Imagine the Beeb had shown him a photo of the innocent man, and, for whatever reason, he had confirmed that that was the man. Later, the innocent man sues, and his barrister puts it to this character, that the Beeb had shown him the photo. I think it would have taken minutes to make a jury believe, with this man's already unreliable back-ground as an informant, that he had never seen the man until he saw the photo --and any identification afterwards would be worthless. There are any number of institutions, and people who cock- up big time on a regular basis, with scarcely any repercussions. Yet the BBC does once, possibly twice, and it is to be ripped apart. Hysteria, and score-settling.
Do you notice how little coverage is given to the plight of these kids? Who cares about that when you can get your own back on the best investigative programme we have ever had?