The link is, of course, testosterone & insane male competitiveness.
The Tonight programme came under attack from all sides for not broadcasting an item it had been working on which alleged that Jimmy Savile was a predatory abuser of young girls. They got ruthlessly done over by politicians, press, ITV & their colleagues on the BBC’s own Panorama. (Greg Dyke, who lost his job in the last huge BBC hoo-ha over the sexed-up dossier over Iraq & WMD, said that one of the hardest tasks was to stop the rival groups on Panorama & Tonight from murdering each other.)
So then the Tonight team seem to have taken too much to heart all that stuff about believing the victims & - to prove that they are really just as big & brave as everyone else - gone ahead with broadcasting accusations which are themselves already subject to one of the 9 inquiries into previous inquiries into past cases of sex abuse. With some help from an organisation called the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, of which I know nothing but which sounds very soviet.
And so a bad situation, which seems to involve an outbreak of mass public insanity, or at least a periodical fit of morality, was made even worse.
The one flaw in my argument is that a woman is in overall charge of the BBC news empire
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