Can We Still Trust the BBC?

The scandals that have rocked the BBC have touched the corporation from top to bottom.

As the revelations about Jimmy Savile unfold and shock the nation, people may reasonably ask what possible trust they can have in this incomparable national institution, once the embodiment of truth and moral excellence.

This book asks a big question: can we still trust the BBC? Drawing on his earlier book, Can We Trust the BBC?, Robin Aitken, a BBC reporter and executive for 25 years, argues that these most recent controversies are rooted in longstanding lapses and shortcomings in the BBC's doctrine of impartiality.

In the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, he considers how 'public sector broadcasting' can survive now that public trust in the BBC has been jeopardized. This book blends analysis and sharp polemic to paint a vivid picture of life inside the news machine, as well as the Light Entertainment department, giving the reader unique insight into the context in which the scandals revealed in 2012 unfolded.

Everything Robin Aitken prophesised in his original book has come true. His analysis at least is to be trusted.

Autorentext
Robin Aitken is a former BBC reporter and journalist. He spent twenty-five years working across many levels of the corporation, from local radio to the Today programme.

Inhalt
Abbreviations
A Confessional Preface
Prologue

1 Cultural War
2 The Nightmare on News Street
3 Sex with Auntie
4 The Best Broadcaster in the World
5 A Reporter's Progress
6 Blowing the Whistle
7 Who are these People?
8 The Best European
9 The Despised Tribes
10 Today at War
11 The Moral Maze
12 Testimonies: 'A Foghorn Bellowing at the Nation'#
13 Conclusion

Index

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