{"id":122129,"date":"2015-09-27T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T08:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122129"},"modified":"2015-09-30T05:53:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T05:53:56","slug":"alan-yentob-branded-bbc-journalists-traitors-over-savile-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=122129","title":{"rendered":"Alan Yentob ‘branded BBC journalists traitors over Savile expos\u00e9’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine Rushton and Jess Fleig — Daily Mail Sept 24, 2015<\/h1>\n
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BBC Creative Director Alan Yentob<\/p><\/div>\n

BBC boss Alan Yentob was last night accused of calling the journalists who exposed the corporation\u2019s cover-up of Jimmy Savile\u2019s crimes \u2018traitors to the BBC\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

The claim was made by Meirion Jones, Newsnight\u2019s former head of investigations, whose 2011 report into sex abuse by Jimmy Savile was blocked by corporation bosses.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to The Sun, Mr Jones claims the remark about him was made to another employee after he contributed to Panorama\u2019s expos\u00e9, Savile \u2013 What The BBC Knew.<\/span><\/p>\n

The programme, by Mr Jones and his colleague Liz MacKean, revealed the organisation\u2019s attempts to stop Newsnight exposing Savile as a predatory paedophile who carried out some attacks on BBC premises.<\/span><\/p>\n

In an article for Spectator Life magazine, Mr Jones said: \u2018A BBC colleague abused as a child wrote to Tony Hall [director general] to complain about the Savile affair.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018In his email, he says he approached Yentob just after Panorama broadcast a film about whether or not there had been a cover-up at the BBC. He claims that Yentob denounced us. \u201cLiz MacKean and Meirion Jones are traitors to the BBC,\u201d Yentob told him.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night, a Tory MP demanded an investigation into whether the allegation was true. Philip Davies said that, if correct, the revelation made Mr Yentob\u2019s \u00a3330,000-a-year executive position \u2018untenable\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Yentob, 68, strongly denies making the comment. A BBC spokesman said: \u2018Alan says this is categorically not true.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Jones compared Mr Yentob\u2019s attempts to meddle with the BBC\u2019s coverage of the Kids Company charity to the BBC\u2019s cover-up of the Savile scandal. He said it was \u2018abundantly clear\u2019 that Mr Yentob should not be \u2018haranguing\u2019 reporters about the fund which he chaired.<\/span><\/p>\n

He added that the pressure the BBC creative director has piled on journalists in recent months has made some of them fear for their jobs at the broadcaster. \u2018Some involved in the present showdown even feared that, if they persevered, they might be forced to leave the BBC, as Liz and I had done, and the parallels with our battle with management over Savile were obvious,\u2019 he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The BBC\u2019s attempt to suppress the Newsnight documentary plunged the corporation into the biggest crisis in its history, and the subsequent handling of the matter cost the then director general, George Entwistle, his job.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lord Hall admitted last week that Mr Yentob had pressured staff over Kids Company \u2013 but insisted it was not a problem because the BBC had still managed to lead on the story.<\/span><\/p>\n

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MP demands an investigation into the allegation. If true, Philip Davies says the revelation made Mr Yentob\u2019s \u00a3330,000-a-year position as BBC Creative Director \u2018untenable\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":122131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,86,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information","category-jimmy-savile-scandal","category-The_Media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122134,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122129\/revisions\/122134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}