Tony Blackburn Sacking. Fuzzy Logic

[Zacs-Master]

I don't think TB has done himself any favours in combating the accusations when he says:

“The reasons for the BBC taking this decision are that my evidence to Dame Janet Smith shows, I believe, that a cover up took place - one that I had no knowledge of. This goes against what the BBC believe."

Huh?

[RATTER15]

They say he was interviewed over the allegations, he says he was never interviewed.

Is that it?

[RATTER15]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35656367

[Togo]

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/bbc-has-sacked-me-says-veteran-dj-tony-blackburn/ar-BBpXEXA?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=edgsp

Bit more info than the BBC give here. If I had to pick one them to trust...........it wouldn't be the Beeb.

[Old_Geezer]

I don't see an issue with your quote. I'll check your link and see if that sheds any light on thepproblem.

[Zacs-Master]

It is early but he seems to be saying he gave evidence of a cover up which he had no knowledge of.

[Togo]

//The presenter, 73, claims that “all relationships” he had with the BBC were “terminated with immediate effect” this week because his evidence to the review over an investigation in 1971 contradicts the BBC’s version of events in relation to an allegation of assault by the mother of a 15 year old who later took her own life.//

He gave evidence at a ''review'' but contests any involvement in the original BBC ''investigation'', and said so at the review. The Beeb has taken exception to him breaking ranks with party central.

[Zacs-Master]

Ah, ok Togo. Just seemed like a strange statement.

[Old_Geezer]

The BBC article seems muddled or at least clumsily written and confusing. The MSN article explains the core issue is regards to different versions of what happened in the past. I get the impression that both versions must have been in the report to account for the claims that it both says Tony was involved and not at the same time.

No doubt further details will emerge.

[bhg481]

ZM //It is early but he seems to be saying he gave evidence of a cover up which he had no knowledge of. //

I don't read it like that. I take it to mean that the BBC are saying that interviews took place which didn't and that is all part of their scheme to cover up the fact that they didn't look into the Savile allegations properly. In other words, he's not directly giving evidence of a cover up, he's saying that their version of the interviews is saying that they carried out checks which never took place as part of their plot to persuade the public that they made a thorough job of their investigations.

[Togo]

//Ah, ok Togo. Just seemed like a strange statement. //

Maybe deliberately garbled by the BBC to obscure the salient points. Perfect illustration of BBC tactics when they report anything, particularly when it involves themselves.

[Jomlett]

Dame Janet Smith's report on the BBC is out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/dame_janet_smith

[DTCwordfan]

The Beeb will be as quiet as possible over this as TB is threatening to send in Carter-*uck and all.....if he is correct in his assertation, then this is the right course of action. I would be doing that in his shoes.

[Bathsheba]

*sigh*....Tony Blackburn now.....feels like all my teenage years have been tainted :(

Baths
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[andy-hughes]

The BBC has done itself no favours in sacking a much-loved presenter.

Until the facts are fully revealed, they will be seen as a monolithic organisation that uses a Stalinist approach to what it perceives as dissent.

Given that it is a publicly funded organisation, I think it has shot itself in the foot (again!) and hopefully will be exposed as such in the media.

If Mr Blackburn does bring legal action - then the BBC will be forced to use its public funding to defend itself, which in straitened times, is not going to look good.

Proof, though none were needed, that people in charge of large organisations are rarely there by the strength of their abilities to behave properly, and act in the interests of those who pay their salaries and bonuses - which is us.

[bazwillrun]

time yet again if proof were needed for the break up of the blatantly biased clowns...

they live in their own little world of marble towers funded by a tax, and run like a quasi governmnt dept. and tell us what they are going to do and how things should be...utter disgrace...hope TB hauls them through the courts and rips them a new one and shows them up for what they are..

[andy-hughes]

bazwillrun - I fully expect Mr Blackburn will do just that!

Beneath his cuddly self-deprecating exterior, I think he can be as litigious as the next public figure.

I think he's wonderful and will miss him on Pick Of The Pops.

[naomi24]

Shame on the BBC.

[Jomlett]

Asked why the BBC has sacked Tony Blackburn, Tony Hall confirms the BBC has “parted company” with the veteran DJ.

Defending the move, Hall said: “As Dame Janet has said, she has rejected his [Blackburn’s] evidence and she has explained very clearly why. I have to take that extremely seriously. My interpretation of that is that Tony Blackburn fell short of the standards of evidence that such an inquiry demanded. I’m making no accusations about events or behaviours that happened in the past ... but about what he was doing in front of this really crucial inquiry.”

[shoota]

It's on BBC2 at the moment, I'm not listening too closely but did hear Hall say that he has written evidence that Blackburn was 'interviewed' by BBC bigwigs (Cotton?) about an incident. Blackburn stated that he never was thereby throwing doubt on anything that he said.
As I said I wasn't specifically listening but that was the gist of why he was 'retired.'

[Togo]

Is that Stuart Hall shoota? Wonder who penned the 'written' evidence and why. Smoke and mirrors ? More Here.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/broadcasters-back-tony-blackburn-after-he-is-sacked-from-the-bbc-in-sex-abuse-probe-row/ar-BBpZ4mp?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=edgsp