25-02-2016, 22:08
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Re: BBC - double standards?
As a contractor working at the BBC, at White City, in the time that this all happened. All the management are hypocrites.
They blame anyone, to get themselves off the hook. I worked in several departments in 'The Circle' doing Hygiene work.
You knew what you had to keep quiet, and where you could go. And sometimes, you were told to keep away from certain places.
The worst thing was, that when you was in the White City complex. The management would walk round quite smug, and look at you if you were the crap.
I feel for Tony Blackburn. He was a loyal employee for the Beeb.
Yes, he is the scapegoat. Just annoys me that the Beeb are paying part of the compo to that producer.
I believe there is more to this crap, than meets the eye
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25-02-2016, 23:21
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
As a contractor working at the BBC, at White City, in the time that this all happened. All the management are hypocrites.
They blame anyone, to get themselves off the hook. I worked in several departments in 'The Circle' doing Hygiene work.
You knew what you had to keep quiet, and where you could go. And sometimes, you were told to keep away from certain places.
The worst thing was, that when you was in the White City complex. The management would walk round quite smug, and look at you if you were the crap.
I feel for Tony Blackburn. He was a loyal employee for the Beeb.
Yes, he is the scapegoat. Just annoys me that the Beeb are paying part of the compo to that producer.
I believe there is more to this crap, than meets the eye
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I'd rather feel for what ever is left of the dead girls family and I hope this is just the start
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25-02-2016, 23:52
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Re: BBC - double standards?
It's a damn shame that Tony Blackburn's reputation is being dragged through the mud.
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26-02-2016, 11:25
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Originally Posted by Arthurgray50@blu
I feel for Tony Blackburn. He was a loyal employee for the Beeb.
Yes, he is the scapegoat. Just annoys me that the Beeb are paying part of the compo to that producer.
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I feel sorry for Tony Blackburn as well, but are you referring to that Top Gear producer? If you are, do you not think he deserves something for being attacked at work?
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26-02-2016, 11:41
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I'd rather feel for what ever is left of the dead girls family and I hope this is just the start
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If she killed herself purely over what allegedly went on, why did she keep going back there? More likely to be because the diary was discovered and the mother kicked up a fuss over the contents. Doesn't mean the contents were true.
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26-02-2016, 11:53
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Re: BBC - double standards?
From what I've read, Blackburn said she seemed to be a fantasist. If true, then maybe she was going to be exposed as a liar. I don't know, only surmising.
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26-02-2016, 12:07
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Re: BBC - double standards?
Nobody at the Beeb (or anywhere else for that matter) should be beyond scrutiny and punishment but they're not. Some people clearly are fair game to be hung out to dry whilst the upper echelons who turned a blind eye to what was happening largely get away with it, scuttling off to enjoy their bloated perks and pensions.
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26-02-2016, 12:14
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Originally Posted by Osem
Nobody at the Beeb (or anywhere else for that matter) should be beyond scrutiny and punishment but they're not. Some people clearly are fair game to be hung out to dry whilst the upper echelons who turned a blind eye to what was happening largely get away with it, scuttling off to enjoy their bloated perks and pensions.
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And so it appears to trundle on, nothing has changed and the establishment at the higher levels looks after it's own whether it be the BBC, Parliament, etc. And if people get in the way or try to change the status quo then they will be got rid of!
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26-02-2016, 12:30
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Re: BBC - double standards?
Call me cynical, but I can't be the only one thinking that the "difference of opinion" between Blackburn and the BBC was engineered either to distract attention from a report which seems to suggest a massive management failure at the BBC, or to conveniently get rid of Blackburn for other contractual reasons.
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26-02-2016, 13:01
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Call me cynical, but I can't be the only one thinking that the "difference of opinion" between Blackburn and the BBC was engineered either to distract attention from a report which seems to suggest a massive management failure at the BBC, or to conveniently get rid of Blackburn for other contractual reasons.
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Neither (or both) of those suggestions would surprise me.
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26-02-2016, 13:25
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Re: BBC - double standards?
Fish rot from the head downwards.
Those in the top eschelons should be getting dawn raids from plod as well.
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26-02-2016, 16:54
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Originally Posted by nomadking
If she killed herself purely over what allegedly went on, why did she keep going back there? More likely to be because the diary was discovered and the mother kicked up a fuss over the contents. Doesn't mean the contents were true.
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Darn right she kicked up a fuss and was ignored, fobbed of and lied to pretty much up until the day she died. If people want to lie to enquiry and get sacked over it tough, I hope it goes much further and if people are covering things up they get what's coming to, with a bit of luck it'll lead to actual abusers facing justice
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28-02-2016, 16:46
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Re: BBC - double standards?
You do wonder what actual practical steps the BBC has taken to prevent this kind of thing ever happening again.
It is worrying too that so many of these sexual abuse cases are connected to the BBC and management were supposedly unaware of them.
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28-02-2016, 17:53
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Originally Posted by ntluser
You do wonder what actual practical steps the BBC has taken to prevent this kind of thing ever happening again.
It is worrying too that so many of these sexual abuse cases are connected to the BBC and management were supposedly unaware of them.
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Hopefully they will take future accusations seriously. Let's not pretend this was only an issue at the BBC. Saville seemed to be doing this in institutions across the country, the police didn't seem to follow up on what they did know, even the 'establishment' as as senior politicians and the royals seemed to welcome him into their world.
I think society in general allowed people in positions of power to get away with it. It also seems that society had, maybe still has, a problem with believing victims of sexual assault especially when those victims are from difficult backgrounds or are otherwise 'troubled'. Hell, look at Rotherham.
Watching all these inquiries come in and all the arrests form Yewtree it's weird how society seems to have forgotten that it is culpable to some extent as well. I mean where were the press in going after Saville, Harris and Clifford?
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28-02-2016, 18:06
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Re: BBC - double standards?
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Originally Posted by ntluser
You do wonder what actual practical steps the BBC has taken to prevent this kind of thing ever happening again.
It is worrying too that so many of these sexual abuse cases are connected to the BBC and management were supposedly unaware of them.
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Well either a lot of managers weren't doing their jobs properly or they turned a blind eye to some very serious wrongdoing. It's not good either way.
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