In “spring” the BBC will publish an independent report into “workplace culture”, a deep dive, which, if it is doing its job properly, will shed light on the BBC’s propensity to let bad people do bad things.
This week’s Gaza debacle came just days after it put out another apology following the release of another damaging independent report, this time into what the executives knew about DJ Tim Westwood’s alleged “bullying and misogynistic” behaviour.
It was but a month ago that the BBC also apologised to staff for “management failings” over how they handled complaints about Russell Brand’s “unacceptable behaviour” when he was a DJ on Radio 2 and 6 Music.
Released while the world’s gaze was on Ukraine as it entered its third year of war, the BBC board admitted it had not taken complainants’ views seriously enough because it was “too deferential to high-profile individuals”.
More than 500 luvvies and lefties — including, naturally, £1.35million-a-year Match Of The Day host Gary Lineker — were furious the BBC was under fire for its Gaza documentary.
