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Bad People

105. Dark Arts 2: Can we prevent campaigns of vilification?

Bad People

BBC

Society & Culture, True Crime, Unknown

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It’s the Bad People finale. In this last ever episode, Julia and Sofie dig into the ethics of the media covering criminal cases. After a press “campaign of vilification”, all charges against Christopher Jefferies were dismissed. The tabloids had incorrectly painted him as Joanna Yeates’ killer. Mr Jefferies took the newspapers responsible to court - and won. He then gave evidence during the Leveson Inquiry, the UK’s landmark investigation into wrongdoing and alleged corruption within the media. In this episode of Bad People, criminal psychologist Dr Julia Shaw and comedian Sofie Hagen discuss why many of us think the media is biased against our own views because of “the hostile media effect”. They talk about the Leveson inquiry and what makes media coverage of crimes bad -- or good. At the end, they summarise what they learned from working on Bad People for the past three and a half years. CREDITS Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen Producers: Laura Northedge and Lauren Armstrong-Carter Assistant Producer: Hannah Ward Editors: Anna Lacey and Richard Collings Music: Matt Chandler Commissioning Executive: Dylan Haskins Commissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Eland Production Coordinator: Jonathan Harris #BadPeople_BBC

Transcript

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On Valentine's Day 2004, one of Italy's greatest cyclists

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was found dead in mysterious circumstances.

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In Italy, there's growing mystery

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by the death of one of the country's sporting heroes.

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And Tony, known as the Pirate,

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because of the yellow bandana he wore around his head.

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In November 2021, new evidence had supposedly come to light,

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alleging that the Italian Mafia were involved

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in Marco Pantone's death.

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The other top European cyclists have died mysteriously

0:32.0

in the last year.

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The Mafia goes where money is.

0:35.0

Nearly 20 years on, are we any closer to knowing for sure

0:38.0

what happened to the Pirate?

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It's a very dark story, the Pantani story.

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It's a tragedy.

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I'm Hugh Dennis, and this is sport-strangest crimes.

0:46.0

Marco Pantone, death of a pirate.

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Listen on BBC sounds.

0:52.0

Are the dogs who are sleeping?

0:56.0

Three, two, one.

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