I don’t know the truth about this but it wouldn’t be the first time the BBC’s Panorama programme has cobbled together some very dodgy ‘evidence’ related to Murdoch and his businesses and using very suspect sources to beef up their story……
Sun reporter Mazher Mahmood has accused the BBC of giving “deeply misleading reasons” for postponing the broadcast if its Panorama Investigation Fake Sheikh: Exposed.
Mahmood failed last week in a bid to stop publication of recent images of himself (which he said would undermine his safety).
But last night the BBC pulled the programme less than hour before broadcast because it said it had received new information from Mahmood’s lawyers.
Mahmood said today that this new information was made available last week.
He also questioned the reliability of the testimony which he said the programme was based on.
Mahmood said in a statement: “The BBC Panorama programme ‘Fake Sheikh – Exposed’ has now been postponed twice. The reasons given by the BBC last night are deeply misleading and I am forced into making a statement to correct the impression they have given.
“The BBC approached me on 15th October and made a number of allegations against me relating to my career as an investigative journalist. As a result I instructed lawyers and they have provided detailed rebuttals and evidence showing that the allegations are unsustainable and wrong.
I used to think that the Sun was about as low as journalism could get; but if it’s a dispute between the Sun and Panorama I’ll go with the Sun.
Along with BBC ‘Newsnight’ the ‘Panorama’ team have lost any credibility they once had. Trust on anything ‘factual’ has long since vanished to innuendo, twitter views and non funny comedy routines and ‘political drama entertainment’ for purely propaganda purposes. The BBC have it in for Murdoch but then we doubt Murdoch is worse than the BBC perversions and corruptions it tries to conceal. The BBC is by far the worse exhibit of the two.