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BBC denies Jimmy Savile cover-up reports

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The BBC has denied that they dropped a Newsnight documentary to cover-up for Jimmy Savile.
The BBC has said that there is 'no evidence' that Newsnight was encouraged to drop a investigative documentary into allegations of sexual assault by Sir Jimmy Savile.
The BBC's director of editorial policy and standards, David Jordan, said that, despite the reports, any interference by BBC management into a Newsnight programme would make the journalists who make the show 'more determined to do it.'
"I don't think it's credible... to suggest that senior managers could influence the conduct of an investigation of that sort," he said in an interview with BBC Radio Four.
The BBC's response to the claims comes after the ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side Of Jimmy Savile, averaged a whopping 1.9 million viewers on Wednesday (5 October) night.
The documentary scooped a quarter of the total audience when the show was broadcast at 11.10pm and attracted ITV1's highest audience in the slot for the entire year so far.
The ITV programme featured five women who alleged they were sexually assaulted as teenagers by the DJ and presenter in the 1970s, some in his BBC dressing room.
In the interview with Radio Four, Mr Jordan denied the rumours that a Newsnight report investigating Jimmy Savile was dropped because the BBC were planning a Sir Jimmy Savile tribute show to be broadcast last Christmas.
He said: "It was a matter of judgement for the editor of Newsnight at the time".
He said that the Newsnight investigation was based "specifically on allegations that had been made to Surrey police in 2007... and allegations that investigations conducted by the Surrey police had not been done properly", he added.
"It turned out not to be true. Surrey police had delivered evidence to the Crown Prosecution Service, and the CPS had decided, on the basis that the evidence they had, that they would not proceed."
"The [Newsnight] editor decided that he didn't want to pursue the general rumours and allegations about Jimmy Savile's sexual conduct in the 60s and 70s, for a variety of reasons".
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So many people either knew or suspected the fact that Savile was assaulting underage girls but chose to do nothing whatsoever about it. What a sick society we live in, when we can’t or won’t protect our children because it is too uncomfortable to accuse someone of child abuse even if it is on a hunch.
It’s better to be more suspecting and less trusting, to keep our Kids safe from these foul individuals.
Jimmy Savile is just the tip of the iceberg, I bet there will be plenty more to follow.
If the allegations about saville are true the his knight hood should be posthumously stripped from him .Or are we giving perverts knighthoods now
The BBC has been championing the cause of libertarianism for decades, subtly "spinning" its products and luvvy propaganda to brainwash our society into believing that anything goes and that any kind of conduct is acceptable. So it comes as no surprise that the kind of people it recruited from the Oxbridge in the 60s and 70s were of the same sick persusasion as Sir Jimmy and all the other bent individuals who set the "trend" that has gradually eroded all the traditional values in British society and culture, all in the name of human rights and individual liberties. We are now reaping the reward of their efforts: a country full of perverse contradictions where the rule of law has virtually ceased to exercise any kind of restraint over unnatural behaviour, just as the ancient Greek philosophers predicted. I myself gave 30 years of my life defending these values in the armed forces, and my father and grandfathers before me also served in both World Wars. I am now ashamed to call myself British and am beginning to understand why so many people in the world now despise liberal demcrocacy.
The motives of the noblest of deeds frequently do not bear too close an examination. Those of Jimmy Savile clearly fall into that category. He was a self-centred, lime-light seeking freak whose good works were more about attracting attention on himself tin order to feed his ego. Eventually, he became deluded into thinking he was so loved and important that he could set his own set of rules. In that, he was ;while he was alive and remains in death, in excellent company. As for the knighthood, it has always been possible for such people to purchase honours of that sort in a variety of ways. These days it tends to be celebritiies who do the kind of "good works" he did, and for identical reasons.
I can understand these women not coming forward before, as lets face it, who are people going to believe, a Knight of the Realm, loved by millions of the British Public, & raising millions for charity, or some young girl?
If these allegations are true, money shouldn't be involved in any way as that seems to be the answer to everything now, " we killed your husband by mistake, but have a few grand & it'll make it all better".
What should be the outcome is if it has happened, anyone still alive involved should be held to account, & most important of all, it should be used as an example & lessons learnt so that it doesn't happen ever again.
David Jordan is talking through his anus ! Esther Rancid knew about it years ago - ( you know the caring founder of Childline ) Janet Street Porter ( Famous feminist - ~TV pundit - Fleet St. Editor) tknew about it years ago , Saville did a recorded interview with a reporter ( presumambly? )Wherein he condemned the police for doing Gary Glitter for possession of Porn involving young girls on the grounds that it was for his own coinsumption.. After re reading the above article again I think Mr Jordan is a devious man, certainly disingenuous at least ( A lawyer perhaps ) The people I've listed above are self seeking individuals who wouldn't stand up and be counted at crunch time - Alligator mouths and humminbird arses.
Sad people all on the money grabbin band wagon, wait till a man is dead then go for the honey or is it money pot.. interesting the complainants kept their mouths shut for 40 yrs or more about opening their l--s. bbc doing anything to get viewing figures up we are getting just like America.
Its too late as previously mentioned do we dig him up?? It would be very interesting to hear about all the other celebs who have been doing this the only one caught when alive was Jackko they even waited till Elvis was dead before hitting the news. Sad world all round
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