Protected prolific pedovore Jimmy Savile while CEO of BBC. Now protecting pedovores and publishing subversive IO at Carlos Slim Helu's failing NY Times
>The author of a controversial inquiry into the handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal at the BBC has suggested that a former director-general lied when giving evidence, according to a tape recording.
>Nick Pollard was asked by a journalist during a taped conversation if Mr Thompson's "instinct" was to "lie" during questioning when he appeared before the inquiry. Mr Pollard replied: "Yes. Well... yeah, yeah."
New York Times chief Mark Thompson leaves sex abuse scandal at BBC
(2012) >Incoming NYT boss says he had no knowledge of allegations that one of Britain's biggest stars was a serial abuser of children
>The BBC, where Thompson was director general until last month, is in the middle of a growing scandal involving a TV host who was once one of its highest-profile stars. But this tangle is not over a badly turned phrase or some other on-air mishap – it is about accusations that, for a period of decades, Britain's national broadcaster turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse of young children perpetrated on its premises.
