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The BBC has apologised “unreservedly” for mistakenly not naming the name of an unnamed name it didn’t name in a Newsnight programme after it emerged the name of the person it didn’t name as a child abuser was a former Conservative peer – who it didn’t name.
The BBC’s statement, issued on Friday evening and also broadcast at the beginning of Friday’s Newsnight programme, said:
On 2 November, Newsnight broadcast a report which didn’t name someone we shouldn’t have named.
We apologise unreservedly for not naming the name we didn’t name and we will endeavour to make sure we do not ever again not name anyone we shouldn’t name – even if we don’t name the name.
The BBC would also like to add that the name we didn’t name was in now way connected to the former Conservative Party treasurer Lord McAlpine – a name we are not allowed to name. We think.
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Will they henceforth refrain from naming the name of the name of the person they will not actually name?
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Why was it apparently beyond the wits of the Newsnight reporter(s) to have shown Steve Messham a number of photographs of politicians, local worthies and people who could not possibly have been involved, to see which – if any – he would pick out as alleged abusers?
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Lord McAlpine is not the only senior politician of Margaret Thatcher’s government who were named on twitter/blogs… there are at least three others and I haven’t been really been looking.
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Ok so they’re sorry for not doing what they should have, and sorry for doing what they did, so they’re sorry for being sorry? !
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Or just a sad, sorry mess?
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AN APPY POLLY LOGGY
AN APOLOGY
A MEA CULPA
A SINCERE APOLOGY WITH REMORSE REGRET AND HUMBLE MASTER AND SERVENT OBEDIENCE.
I AM SORRY I REALLY AM.
LAST WEEK I DID AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESS.
IT WAS AGREED THAT I WOULD NOT NAME NAMES TO PROTECT THE REPUTATIONS OF IMPORTANT LORDS AND LADIES.
I DID NOT NAME NAMES BECAUSE OF THE LIBEL LAWS AND THE SLIM CHANCE OF ANY CHILD RAPE CASE COMING TO COURT.
SO I DID NOT NAME NAMES.
THE BBC ALSO AGREED TO NOT NAME NAMES AND THEY DID NOT.
I AM CONFUSED I DID NOT REALISE THAT BY NOT NAMING NAMES.
I DID NOT UNDERSTAND BY NOT NAMING THE NAME THAT I DID NOT NAME, I WOULD THEN BE OPEN TO THREAT AND PROSECUTION AND MEDIA ABUSE BECAUSE OF MY CALLOUS EVIL ACT OF NOT NAMING NAMES.
MYSELF AND THE BBC ARE CLOSER TO ARE OWN DESTRUCTION THAN YOU CAN KNOW.
I AM SORRY THE BBC IS SORRY,MR WATSON AND PHILLIP SCOFIELD IS SORRY.
NONE OF US WANTED TO HURT AND DESTROY THE HAPPY FAMILIES AND THE REPUTATIONS OF ARE SUPERORS IT WAS ARE IGNORANCE THAT WAS AT FAULT.
WE DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE POWER OF NOT NAMING NAMES.
THE MERE SUGGESTION THAT A SECRET CABAL OF RICH MEN MOVE CHILDREN AROUND IN AND OUT OF THE COUNTRY LIKE CATTLE IS PURE IKEIAN FORUM CONSPIRACY TITTLE TATTLE.
AS A VICTIM OF SODOMY I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY WISH THAT THE INTERNET BE CONTROLLED AND SHUT DOWN IN PLACES TO PROTECT THE LORDS AND SENSITIVE LADIES OF OLDE ENGERLUND.
CHILDREN MAKE UP STORIES THAT IS WHY WE NEED THEM IN NSPCC CHILDLINE HOMES.
ONCE WITHIN THEY CAN MAKE AS MUCH NOISE AND TELL AS MANY STORIES AS THEY WANT, AS THEY WILL NOT BE SEEN OR HEARD.
THANK GOD WE ARE NOW BACK ON TRACK.
PRAISE BE THE STATUS QUO
THANK YOU MR BLAIR AND PRIME MINISTER CAM MORON
GOD BLESS THE QUEEN.
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