Yes I love the BBC, as out of all the media it is the one I think you can trust most.
But, like everything else, it is only as good as the weakest people who work for that organisation 
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If you do the tiniest bit of research on the Martin Bashir fiasco, you will find that Beeb did their own investigation when the first rumblings of a problem started.
They produced a whitewash which cleared him, and the Director General then stated that Bashir was an honourable man.
Bashir was until last week, Head of religious programming on the BBC, but resigned when he knew what this report was going to say about him.
The cover up had been uncovered at last and he and the BBC had nowhere left to hide.
As an organisation, the BBC is a national disgrace and should be shut down today.
Yes I have heard all that, but to “shut down” today what is overall a very sound global news broadcaster over a bad situation all those years ago is just nonsense. All organisations can have a bad day, even bad year, but judge them on what they do now in 2021, not in 1995.
In any case Princess Dianne was badly flawed and that interview was not influenced by anything Bashir did; she had primed herself to dish the dirt to whoever was going to listen to her, BBC, ITV, Fox News, The Sun, etc, etc.
So to rubbish the BBC today is just daft. If you don’t like the BBC productions, then switch to another channel. Simples.
No, just an innocent virgin married off to a man who was in love with a married woman, and who had no intention of keeping to the old-fashioned practice of sticking to his marriage vows.
Plus the interview was obtained by deceipt, not only resulting in the unfair loss of
many jobs at the Beeb, but, arguably, indirectly resulting in her tragic death.
Lady Dianne was born into British nobility being very close to the Royal Family. She should have known how the Royal establishment operates and what is expected of those who marry into it. She had a very privileged start in life that most women can only dream about. She was meant to be an intelligent young women, so could have managed her life differently but I am sure was rather blinded by the status of being a Royal. She should have carried out far more research on who Prince Charles was, beyond what she should have known only too well being in a family so close to the Royals.
Marrying into the Royal Family is a very serious business and I am sure from what I have read and heard about her situation at the time she underestimated that and it simply overcome her, causing the mental health difficulties that Harry and Megan are now complaining about. Living under the intense spot light of our media is enough, and having to "cope" in the Royal circle could blow anyone's mind. But she could and should have handled it far better than she did, and not resort to some, what I thought of, as childish ploys to get sympathy and then go off with a lover instead of sorting it out with Charles.
She could have done a lot better. But it all proved that high privilege, unlimited wealth, and great influence cannot replace intelligence and REAL love, not a fantasy of one.
All the Bashir interview did, and any interview could have unlocked it no matter what skulduggery was behind it, was give Dianne a chance to off load her emotions to the general public, which is against the rules within the Royal circle!
So the BBC was at fault in 1995/96, but to condemn everything they do now is just over the top and other media outlets are just playing on it!
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