Naming, shaming and a second allegation
The News Agents
Global
4.1 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Another day of stories about a high profile BBC presenter at the centre of a sex scandal and and still no name.
Come 4pm, BBC News announced a second young person had come forward with a complaint about the same presenter.
We explore how privacy laws work in the media, when social media plays such a huge role - is this the Wild West when it comes to keeping a name out of the public domain?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.2 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.7 | I want to be careful about what I can give you in terms of the specifics of a complaint. |
| 0:16.4 | I cannot get into specifics. I'm not going to get into the specific conversations with the presenter. |
| 0:22.6 | Again, that is a matter that I think we have to respect the privacy of an employee. |
| 0:26.8 | Absolutely, I cannot comment on that. That is not information that I'm parted to. |
| 0:31.3 | I think that's not something for the BBC, bluntly. I can't answer for everyone in a department. |
| 0:37.2 | I can't speak to complaints |
| 0:38.7 | that come in immediately. So you can't even say that that's... No. And that's the BBC Director-General, |
| 0:45.6 | Tim Davy, speaking on the BBC, giving us the slightly less than definitive account of everything |
| 0:53.2 | that happened in the case surrounding |
| 0:55.9 | the BBC presenter. My guess is he'll be really pleased with that interview. He said precisely |
| 1:03.0 | nothing. He gave very little away and yet he was seen to be transparent to a point as the head |
| 1:09.5 | of the BBC as an organisation. So today on the newsagents, |
| 1:14.4 | 24 hours after that bombshell disclosure from the 20-year-old's lawyer that most of the |
| 1:20.5 | allegations were, in his quotes, rubbish, we're going to try and ask a new set of questions, |
| 1:26.7 | get to the bottom of what we know now and how that's changed our perception of the BBC |
| 1:32.2 | and the Sun scandal story. |
| 1:35.0 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:40.1 | The newsagents. |
| 1:41.7 | It's John. |
| 1:42.7 | It's Emily. |
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