Jeremy Clarkson V Bbc.

[tonyav]

He's instructed lawyers over Jimmy Savile smear. I don't blame him either.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/jeremy-clarkson-instructs-lawyers-over-jimmy-savile-smear/ar-BBilcdP

[ToraToraTora]

... the source is also quoted in the link supplied by Tony.

[anotheoldgit]

It is just a comparison such as, the police are taking the same approach over this as they did over the Rotherham child grooming cases.

[ummmm]

Over what?

[Baldric]

Ichkeria @1247
See if this works, they seem to have hidden the page quite well!

http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx

[Baldric]

You may need to click on 'Continue to Pressdisplay'

[woofgang]

It was a stupid, toxic and uncalled for comparison. I am not surprised that the idiot who made it to a newspaper for goodness sake wants to remain anonymous.

Not that I hold any brief for Clarkson.

[bhg481]

If you were under threat of being sacked would you set your lawyers on your employer? It looks to me like Clarkson has accepted the fact that he's out.

[tamborine]

No one is indispensable, including BBC hoi polloi. Absolutely disgraceful faux pas of BBC, sue them I say.

BBC are in no position to criticise JC after their disgusting comparison.

[Zacs-Master]

He's not suing them. He's asked for a retraction.

[tamborine]

ummmm //over what//

Defamation of character ?

[Deskdiary]

There was a charmer on this very site who who last drew much the same comparison last week.

[sandyRoe]

Have people said he was like Savile or, more probably, that he seems to have been treated with kid gloves by people in authority , in a similar manner to him?

[hc4361]

Nobody has said Clarkson is like Savile. Just the treatment of Clarkson by the authorities.

In my opinion, Clarkson has been offered a too good to refuse contract by Sky or some other channel and wants out of the BBC. He's been aiming to be sacked for a while.

[Bazile]

The relationship between the BBC and Clarkson seems to be getting rather strained .

Will they bite the bullet and get rid of him or is the thought of losing all that lovely folding , force them to persevere .

Sources at the BBC has confirmed that a special team has been set up and remain on standby to roll into damage limitation mode , when the next grenade is thrown by Clarkson

[andy-hughes]

The simple way to avoid having to back-pedal like a lunatic about comparisons you may or may not have made, is to delete the word 'Savile' from your public-facing brain!!!!

[Baldric]

See link @ 13:14
You may need to click on . . . 'Continue to Pressdisplay'

[jno]

aog is right. Just mentioning two men in the same sentence may be startling, but the comparison wasn't between them, it was about whether the BBC should ignore misbehaviour by their celebrity staff or not.

[andy-hughes]

jno - I refer you to my above answer.

Anyone who speaks to the media should be very careful about making any even vague comparison with anyone on the planet - and Jimmy Savile - it was a really stupid thing to say.

[sandyRoe]

Have lessons not been learnt from the Savile years if celebrities still expect, and get, undue deference?

[ToraToraTora]

don't talk rot sandy, as I and others have explained above, this is about being mentioned in the same sentence as Saville, the content and the meaning of that content is largely irrelevant.