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Lord Patten under fire as ‘dysfunctional’ BBC faces Savile report
Reams of ‘unedifying’ internal documents show corporation’s ‘meltdown’
By Ian Burrell
BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, left; ex-Newsnight editor Peter Rippon
The BBC will be engulfed by the publication of a mountain of internal documentation revealing the “deeply unedifying spectacle” of bitter infighting and mistrust among its most senior managers and high-profile figures.
The 3,000 pages of evidence released this morning into the corporation’s mishandling of the Jimmy Savile sex-abuse scandal will reveal a dysfunctional management that contributed to one of the worst crises in the broadcaster’s history, The Independent has learnt. The evidence is understood to be embarrassing for Lord Patten, who faced calls for his resignation during the crisis.
The transcripts will also reveal the desperate attempts by senior BBC figures to blame others for the crisis. “It’s just a deeply unedifying spectacle of people trying to cover their arses,” said one source who has read the material.
Helen Boaden, the BBC’s director of news who was recently given a new job running BBC Radio, “does not come across well”, according to sources who have seen the evidence. Her testimony to Nick Pollard’s review of BBC failings “seems to be all over the place”, one said.
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