• David Cameron‘s threat to block EU reforms has been branded ‘economic insanity’ by Peter Mandelson. Patrick Wintour reports.
• The Jimmy Savile scandal triggered public revulsion. But Jon Henley finds out that experts disagree about what causes pedophilia – and even how much it harms.
• Fix infrastructure, don’t fund flagship reports. Larry Elliott writes on the evidence that suggests it is better to repair than to construct.
• Tom Cox shares some surprising facts about hedgehogs.
• Kathryn Bigelow: the drama queen who captured Osama. Andrew Anthony interviews the Oscar-winning director who’s been accused of defending the use of torture in her latest release.
• Audiobook reviews of Germaine Greer and Natasha Walter.
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There have been quite a number of exposes by The Media of late.
O the global level,of recent exposes is the exposure of phone hacking by the Media ,which made Murdoch close his News of The World,Jimmy Savile of The BBC and broadcaster’s marquee news magazine wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal, which cost the BBC Director General George Entwistle his job.
In India we had the radia tape on 2 G Spetcrum Scam,ISRO-Antrix-Dewas,CWG,CoalGate,Maharashtra Irrigation,Salman Khurshid et al , all exposed by the media.
Three is a growing voice that The media is wrong in trying the case in Public and that it is not fair.
The difference is that the information relating to a shady deal is being reported from an angle,need not necessarily be correct in the information-this is subject to verification,for all.
One must remember these exposes score self goals as well, as in this case and for instance the Guwahati Molestation case’ when the modus operandi of the filming received more stinging comments.
Then, to find out the truth is the job of the investigating agencies to ferret out the truth.
If incorrect,media ca be awarded punitive punishment.
That way the media can be made more responsible.
To shut it down from publishing only News that has happened and scientific facts-for these Text Books and Gazette will do,will deprive democracy of it a great pillar of strength.
With out these exposes we would never have heard of scams in India starting from Bofors!
The action taken on these proven facts is still zero.
Imagine what goes unreported.
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George Entwistle,Director General BBC.
Coming on top of the Jimmy Savile crisis, which was prompted partly by the fact that Newsnight had shelved an earlier investigation into allegations of child abuse, this was particularly damaging to the BBC.
But this was also about the handling of the crisis. Last month, Mr Entwistle was accused by MPs of showing “an extraordinary lack of curiosity” over the Jimmy Savile affair and they told him to “get a grip”.
On Saturday in an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, he said he knew nothing in advance about the Newsnight broadcast nor had he seen a newspaper report revealing Lord McAlpine may have been wrongly accused.
MPs, former editors and broadcasting executives were unimpressed and so, I understand, were members of the BBC Trust.
On Sunday, the job of acting director-general will be taken by Tim Davie, who’s been running the radio side of the BBC but who has no direct journalistic experience.
The BBC still faces very serious questions, not just about its journalism but about how the organisation is run.’
As additional information of the abuse of girls by Jimmy Savile keeps pouring in , he found an unlikely and a supporter from Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, who is a serial killer.
Sutcliffe, befriended by Savile during his Broadmoor visits, said on a tape leaked to The Sun: “It’s a load of rubbish. People are just getting carried away.”
Serial killer Sutcliffe claims Savile is being victimised — by the hundreds of tormented individuals who are revealing how the vile DJ abused them.
Sutcliffe even claimed he could personally vouch for his mate.
Speaking on the tape, he said: “I can’t fault him from my experiences of what he was like. I don’t care what these people who are coming out of the woodwork are saying.
“He visited a lot. He’d always come and chat with me on visits and I would introduce him to my visitors. Several times he left £500 for charities I was supporting. He wrote cheques out on the spot, a very generous man he was.”
Savile is accused of having abused more than 300 youngsters – including molesting a teenage female Broadmoor patient. But Sutcliffe, who murdered and mutilated 13 women, poured scorn on the claims of those Savile attacked.
He said: “Coming forward after 40 or 50 years or whatever, they are jumping on the bandwagon.
“It only takes a couple of rumours and then it goes like wildfire. I don’t believe he raped anyone. I think he kissed quite a few young women but that’s as far as he’s gone.
“It’s just going crazy, they love to savage people who are dead, people who can’t hit back — or prisoners who can’t reply.”
Sutcliffe also dismissed claims that Savile, who died last year aged 84, molested a 1970s Broadmoor patient during his many visits to the secure hospital.
A TORY Councillor has called for Savile’s corpse to be exhumed and cremated after pleas from mourners who have loved ones buried nearby.
Colin Haddington spoke out as colleagues voted to strike Savile’s name from Scarborough Council’s roll of honour and revoke his freedom of the Borough when the police probe ends.
Solicitor Alan Collins said he was due to meet someone who said they had been molested by the television and radio presenter when they were living on the island.
He added that the individual had not been living in an island care home.
The latest claim brings the number of people who have said they were abused by the DJ to six.(BBC)
After hundreds of accusations that claim Jimmy Savile molested hundreds of youngsters, the disgraced DJ has been caught on live TV groping a petrified teenager.
Jimmy Savile Gropes.
Sylvia Edwards can be seen sitting next to the blonde presenter on Top Of The Pops as he announces the next song to viewers, surrounded by a group of teenage girls, after the recording appeared on You Tube.
But then a horrified Sylvia leaps off of her chair, shrieks and tried to move away from smirking Savile, who calmly talks into the camera.
The presenter grins as he shoves his hand up her skirt, tries to grab her bottom and fondles her – as she clearly looks distressed and attempts to wriggle free from him.
The young blonde, who was then a trainee hairdresser, told The Sun that she was so upset she ran to a BBC employee and told them how the pervert had mauled her – but was told to ‘get lost’ because Savile was only ‘messing about’
The 55-year-old recalls how her assault was dismissed, even though it was patently obvious she was being groped.
The mother-of-two, who was 19 at the time, recalled how the male employee was furious at her for complaining about the alleged pervert’s wandering hands, The Sun reported.
She claims she was branded as stupid and says that as a shy teenager she did not have the courage to pursue her complaint.
Savile was 50 at the time of the recording on November 25, 1976 in the BBC’s West London TV Centre.
Now, 36 years later, Ms Edwards says that she can remember every terrifying moment of Savile’s attack, she told The Sun.
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