http://www.businessinsider.com/british-politician-vows-to-sue-tweeters-who-accused-him-of-sex-abuse-2012-11
Lord McAlpine will sue tweeters who said he was a child abuser after Newsnight falsely showed his name midst its attempts to regain BBC's intergretiy following the Jimmy Savile's case.
"It would be as pointless for a defamed man to sue Twitter because of a libellous tweet as it would be for a stabbing victim to sue a kitchen shop because it sold his attacker the knife." - Roy Greenslade (Guardian Journalist)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1024/breaking13.html
George Entwistle, along with other BBC staff involved will give evidence at a Newsnight inquiry as to why they aborted investigations of Jimmy Savile's sexual abuse case
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-21/new-york-times-chairman-says-scandal-hasn-t-made-things-easy-.html
Mark Thompson the former BBC Director General, now Chief Executive Officer at the New York Times has received sympathy from the NY Times Chairman who has claimed the scandal going on at the BBC at the moment "hasn't made things easy" and that "Mark is a good man".
I think the way the BBC dealt with the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse case was wrong. Instead of being apologetic the BBC tried to go after other outside the organisation accusing them of similar actions. I also think George Entwistle should not be paid his full year's salary after he chose to quit. Contractually, he is only entitled to six-months worth of pay. As this is tax payers money and we have been witnessing cuts in the public sector, it is not fair that a well paid man (whose tenure as BBC Director General lasted only 54 days) who will probably go on to another well paid job receives double of what he was supposed to get.
Lord McAlpine will sue tweeters who said he was a child abuser after Newsnight falsely showed his name midst its attempts to regain BBC's intergretiy following the Jimmy Savile's case.
"It would be as pointless for a defamed man to sue Twitter because of a libellous tweet as it would be for a stabbing victim to sue a kitchen shop because it sold his attacker the knife." - Roy Greenslade (Guardian Journalist)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2012/1024/breaking13.html
George Entwistle, along with other BBC staff involved will give evidence at a Newsnight inquiry as to why they aborted investigations of Jimmy Savile's sexual abuse case
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-21/new-york-times-chairman-says-scandal-hasn-t-made-things-easy-.html
Mark Thompson the former BBC Director General, now Chief Executive Officer at the New York Times has received sympathy from the NY Times Chairman who has claimed the scandal going on at the BBC at the moment "hasn't made things easy" and that "Mark is a good man".
I think the way the BBC dealt with the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse case was wrong. Instead of being apologetic the BBC tried to go after other outside the organisation accusing them of similar actions. I also think George Entwistle should not be paid his full year's salary after he chose to quit. Contractually, he is only entitled to six-months worth of pay. As this is tax payers money and we have been witnessing cuts in the public sector, it is not fair that a well paid man (whose tenure as BBC Director General lasted only 54 days) who will probably go on to another well paid job receives double of what he was supposed to get.
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