21-05-2021, 04:25 PM
MrUdagawa post_id=13832 time=1621610355 user_id=1184 Wrote:I am as much a fan of the BBC as the next man, but there is some serious hypocrisy going on if people can't recognise what a monumental failing this is for the organisation.
In my opinion we can't really dub something 'just a media story' if we'd be up in arms if another network or organisation had done the same. The whole point of journalism is that it truthfully holds people to account - if trust in the methods of doing that is lost then it is very serious.
I wouldn't be surprised if the News department gets dissolved and a new department created. Such is the way things generally occur at large companies. The department is damaged, let get rid of it and make something else new which does the same thing but isn't the thing that was damaged in the public eye. Obviously there will always be BBC News in the public, but the department which runs it may be taken away and replaced. Something significant has to occur. Not to tarnish the whole of BBC News, this was just part of it which carried out these allgeged acts.