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PostPosted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 12:09 pm 
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For the moment, the Savile case has shaken the solid reputation Mr. Thompson had when he left the BBC on Sept. 14.

He said he first learned details of the Savile case several days later when he was vacationing in Italy and his former spokesman called to tell him about articles previewing the Oct. 3 Savile documentary on the rival network.

But some of those same details had been known to a group of Mr. Thompson’s employees for more than a year. “Newsnight” reporters had begun investigating Mr. Savile days after he died. After hearing accusations for some time, they waited until Mr. Savile’s death because Britain’s strict libel laws would no longer apply, making it more likely that victims might talk, according to BBC employees familiar with the case.
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In April, with The Times looking for a new chief, Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Thompson met for drinks at the St. Pancras hotel in London. Mr. Thompson wrote an eight-page essay about his ideas for The Times, and just before the Olympics began in late July, flew to New York for interviews with the Times directors.

A background check was performed and, said one Times executive, “he was clean.” Apparently, no reference to the Savile case emerged.

That came in early October, in the form of screeching headlines in London.
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Mr. Thompson, who as the BBC’s director general was both chief executive and editor in chief, partly attributes his lack of knowledge about the “Newsnight” inquiry to the BBC’s enormous size. In fact, its 23,000 employees provide news and entertainment across eight television channels, 50 radio stations, a Web site and a host of other outlets — all with their own chains of command.
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It did not help that Mr. Thompson was “not a sort of warm and cuddly person,” as one former executive put it.


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