Lord Hall has apologised for his role in the original investigation and said: "I was wrong to give Martin Bashir the benefit of the doubt, basing that judgment as I did on what appeared to be deep remorse on his part."Ī BBC spokeswoman said: "Trust is the cornerstone of everything we do. "All of this gets eroded by the stories around what Martin Bashir did or didn't do, and whether it's been properly investigated or not." Mr Carapiet told PA news agency: "The BBC is a public service broadcaster, it's independent and it has to maintain proper balance and due impartiality. It also described the 1996 internal investigation as "woefully ineffective".Įarlier this month Mr Bashir left the BBC, citing health reasons due to complications from COVID-19 and shortly before the publication of the Lord Dyson report. Mr Bashir was in "serious breach" of BBC guidelines when he faked bank statements and then showed them to Diana's brother Earl Spencer to gain access to the princess, the report said. Lord Dyson's report into how Mr Bashir got the scoop and then how the BBC covered up his "deceitful behaviour" said the broadcaster "fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its hallmark". I ran BBC News, the responsibility for it sits with me."Īnother former BBC journalist, Breakfast's Andrew Carapiet, said trust in the corporation had been "eroded" by the fallout from Lord Dyson's newly-released report, which drew anger from Prince William and Prince Harry. In terms of rehiring, the rehiring was done by BBC News. "Lord Dyson's report, as I understand and as I read, has clearly spoken to Lord Hall at some length. © PAĭiana, Princess of Wales, during her interview with Martin Bashir for the BBC
"The fact, I can't help feeling that the fact he was rehired in 2016 has made it more difficult for everyone so I am sorry that he was."Īsked whether former director-general Lord Hall, who led an internal investigation into the Diana interview in 1996, had any involvement in the rehiring of Mr Bashir, he said: "What I was saying is that BBC News hired Martin Bashir and so the responsibility for that sits with me.
"I didn't know and if I had known he wouldn't have got the job. Speaking to BBC News on Friday about rehiring Mr Bashir, Mr Harding said: "So much of what is known now was not known then - and not by me. James Harding, who held the post when Mr Bashir was rehired, said responsibility for the journalist returning to the corporation "sits with me" and acknowledged that the situation was "really distressing for everyone and depressing for anyone who cares about journalism or cares about the BBC". "Now more than ever the BBC must show transparency and honesty in its response."įollowing the release of a damning report into how the interview was arranged, the former director of BBC News apologised for the decision to rehire Mr Bashir, who later became religion editor. "I want to know how the BBC can reassure the committee that there could be no repeat of the serious failings that have been highlighted by the Dyson report. "Namely, why was Martin Bashir rehired, with the BBC knowing what they knew? Trust is key to BBC’s survival – so it must learn from Bashir scandal (The Guardian)īBC 'could face £5m in payouts' over Martin Bashir interview (Daily Mail)
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William and Harry's statements on BBC’s Diana interview in full (The Independent) Mr Knight said: "In the wake of the Dyson report there are serious questions still left to answer. It was then that Mr Bashir became the BBC's religious affairs correspondent - some two decades after the Panorama episode that made him a household name in journalism - and 17 years after he originally left the BBC for ITV. The BBC is facing "serious questions" over why it rehired Martin Bashir after an internal review into the journalist's interview with Princess Diana.ĭigital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairman Julian Knight said he was writing to the corporation's current director-general Tim Davie, who took up the role last year, about the decision to employ Mr Bashir again in 2016.
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