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PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 16 Jul 23 11.05am

Originally posted by Badger11

Good let's have a referendum on the BBC if your side wins I will shut up.

It's very difficult to win any argument against a deluded bigot. To defend the bbc is the very last word in madness.

 


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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 16 Jul 23 11.13am

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

It's very difficult to win any argument against a deluded bigot. To defend the bbc is the very last word in madness.

I can understand the defence of the BBC. What I fail to see is how anyone can defend their handling of the paedophiles and perverts that seem to be rife in their organisation. That's defending the indefensible. I may as well try to rehabilitate Ian Brady. Just misunderstood.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 16 Jul 23 5.22pm

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Complaints were made to the BBC in the early 70's. They knew.

Sorry but I just don’t think that’s true. Not in a way that would have justified, at the time, an investigation.

Someone complained in the mid 80s about an alleged incident in the early 70s but wouldn’t cooperate with the police. What would you seriously have expected any employer to do about that?

Ignore the headline of the article below and read what actually transpired:-

[Link]

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 16 Jul 23 5.32pm

Originally posted by eagleman13

What exactly is that supposed to mean?

Simply that actually being on the ship was a far more traumatic experience to that anyone like me felt, sitting as I was in an hotel thousands of miles away.

My own father’s ship was sunk in WW2 and he had to swim for his life. Something that affected him for the rest of his life. So my respects to you along with my hope it has not left too big a stain.

 


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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 16 Jul 23 5.35pm

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Sorry but I just don’t think that’s true. Not in a way that would have justified, at the time, an investigation.

Someone complained in the mid 80s about an alleged incident in the early 70s but wouldn’t cooperate with the police. What would you seriously have expected any employer to do about that?

Ignore the headline of the article below and read what actually transpired:-

[Link]

Good, that puts that to bed. Rest assured.

 


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Teddy Eagle Flag 16 Jul 23 5.36pm

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Sorry but I just don’t think that’s true. Not in a way that would have justified, at the time, an investigation.

Someone complained in the mid 80s about an alleged incident in the early 70s but wouldn’t cooperate with the police. What would you seriously have expected any employer to do about that?

Ignore the headline of the article below and read what actually transpired:-

[Link]

Mid 80s? Nope.
From the BBC.

Douglas Muggeridge, late controller of Radio 1 and 2 in 1973, launched two investigations into Savile in 1973 but the inquiries were more concerned with "risk of damage to the BBC's reputation" than the welfare of the girls who might be involved with Savile

 

Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 16 Jul 23 5.37pm

Originally posted by georgenorman

Your disingenuousness should win awards.

They’re not even a whiff of disingenuousness present in my comment.

There are though bucket loads of barely disguised prejudice present in many of the others.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 16 Jul 23 5.41pm

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

Mid 80s? Nope.
From the BBC.

Douglas Muggeridge, late controller of Radio 1 and 2 in 1973, launched two investigations into Savile in 1973 but the inquiries were more concerned with "risk of damage to the BBC's reputation" than the welfare of the girls who might be involved with Savile

Did you read the report I linked?

Where does your claim comes from, because it conflicts completely with what the article says happened.

 


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Teddy Eagle Flag 16 Jul 23 5.43pm

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Did you read the report I linked?

Where does your claim comes from, because it conflicts completely with what the article says happened.

As I said it's from the BBC website. You know, that unimpeachable source.

 

Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 16 Jul 23 5.52pm

Originally posted by ASCPFC

I can understand the defence of the BBC. What I fail to see is how anyone can defend their handling of the paedophiles and perverts that seem to be rife in their organisation. That's defending the indefensible. I may as well try to rehabilitate Ian Brady. Just misunderstood.

No-one is, or needs to, defend the BBC in the way you suggest because they don’t and never have covered up the activities of paedophiles. It’s a myth that is strongly held and endlessly circulated by the right and their media to the point it becomes, in their minds, the truth.

 


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eagleman13 Flag On The Road To Hell & Alicante 16 Jul 23 5.52pm

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

As I said it's from the BBC website. You know, that unimpeachable source.

 


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ASCPFC Flag Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 16 Jul 23 6.42pm

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

No-one is, or needs to, defend the BBC in the way you suggest because they don’t and never have covered up the activities of paedophiles. It’s a myth that is strongly held and endlessly circulated by the right and their media to the point it becomes, in their minds, the truth.

Just a series of unfortunate events, linked merely by circumstance.

 


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards georgenorman Flag 16 Jul 23 9.54pm

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

No-one is, or needs to, defend the BBC in the way you suggest because they don’t and never have covered up the activities of paedophiles. It’s a myth that is strongly held and endlessly circulated by the right and their media to the point it becomes, in their minds, the truth.

When the likes of the police, cricket clubs and others are routinely accused of institutional racism etc, those myths are endlessly circulated by the left and their media (including the BBC) to the point it becomes, in their minds, the truth.

Yet the glaring problem of sexual deviancy by a number of high profile BBC celebrities is dismissed by the left as a myth.

 

Helmet46 Flag Croydon 16 Jul 23 10.37pm

Originally posted by Teddy Eagle

As I said it's from the BBC website. You know, that unimpeachable source.

 

Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 17 Jul 23 8.01am

Originally posted by ASCPFC

Just a series of unfortunate events, linked merely by circumstance.

No activity of this kind should be described as unfortunate.

There are though linked circumstances. They all involved high profile people in the media taking advantage of their positions. That also means that when their behaviour is discovered it gets much more attention than if they were working quietly in a backwater.

Those things are true but what isn’t is this idea that the BBC itself was complicit because it wilfully either ignored or covered it up. That, given the benefit of hindsight, they should have been more aware is the reason why new protocols and procedures have been established that match the expectations of today.

 


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Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 17 Jul 23 8.13am

Originally posted by georgenorman

When the likes of the police, cricket clubs and others are routinely accused of institutional racism etc, those myths are endlessly circulated by the left and their media (including the BBC) to the point it becomes, in their minds, the truth.

Yet the glaring problem of sexual deviancy by a number of high profile BBC celebrities is dismissed by the left as a myth.

Do you think that institutional racism doesn’t exist and is just a myth?

No-one is suggesting predatory paedophiles in the media, or other positions of power, don’t exist. What is mythical is the idea that the BBC condoned it in some way. They were as duped by these people as the rest of us and have subsequently taken steps to try to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

 


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Badger11 Flag Beckenham 17 Jul 23 8.15am

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Do you think that institutional racism doesn’t exist and is just a myth?

No-one is suggesting predatory paedophiles in the media, or other positions of power, don’t exist. What is mythical is the idea that the BBC condoned it in some way. They were as duped by these people as the rest of us and have subsequently taken steps to try to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

I think I'll frame this quote and bring it out the next time there's a BBC sex scandal.

 


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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards georgenorman Flag 17 Jul 23 8.49am

Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle

Do you think that institutional racism doesn’t exist and is just a myth?

No-one is suggesting predatory paedophiles in the media, or other positions of power, don’t exist. What is mythical is the idea that the BBC condoned it in some way. They were as duped by these people as the rest of us and have subsequently taken steps to try to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

I think that the majority of allegations of 'institutional racism' are myths - more of a problem is such nonsense as 'unconscious bias' (as agreed by the outgoing chair of the Institute of Race Relations, Colin Prescod, who stepped down after 43 years earlier this year).

It seems that there is a case for believing that the BBC turned a blind eye and in some cases covered up.

 

the silurian Flag The garden of England.(not really) 17 Jul 23 10.21am

Originally posted by eagleman13

HOW?

He won't answer because he has no idea how....I've asked three times with no reply!

 

Wisbech Eagle Flag Truro Cornwall 17 Jul 23 10.21am

Originally posted by Badger11

I think I'll frame this quote and bring it out the next time there's a BBC sex scandal.

There’s no need!

Murdoch’s attack dogs are waiting to pounce on anything that can be written up to give the impression of any kind of corruption within the BBC.

You can rely on them to build a whole mountain range from a molehill.

 


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