It's Bloody Outrageous. The BBC, double standards and hypocrisy in large measure

So, Dame Janet Smith has published her report into the behaviour of Jimmy Savile at the BBC and the BBC's involvement.

She has decided that the BBC Corporation is not culpable and that senior management, above a certain level knew nothing about what was going on, not even for the many years that it was going on. It seems that they had no suspicions; if they had then they should have done something of course, and they didn't.

It follows that only junior management knew and they never said anything at any time to their superiors.

Does anyone really believe this? Can anyone believe anything so preposterous?

Let us apply this to any reputable business anywhere in the UK, or anywhere else in the world. An accident occurs, people are hurt because something has gone wrong with the company's operations.

It is reasonable to ask who knew what, and whose responsibility it would be to find out if all was well or not well, and who would be answerable for mistakes and negligence. It is senior management's and directors' responsibility to know things, to get involved with the 'shop floor', to have an ear to rumour, discontent, inefficiency and negligence. They have a duty of care.

If it were serious enough, and this criminality at the BBC is extremely serious, it would be expected that senior management and directors would have to pay for failures to manage. It is what they are paid for and they should accept responsibility for failure even if it is not their direct fault. It is the price they should accept for their status and high pay.

But here with the BBC and Smith we have to believe in a different set of standards.

There have been many instances in business where the chairman, or chief executive for example have resigned or being sacked for failure well beneath their own level. Sacked because they ought to have know what was going on. But not in the case of the BBC, the senior management are absolved of blame, they can't be blamed because they didn't know what was going on.

It is the British Establishment looking after its own, yet again.

And hypocrisy? How often has the BBC called for resignations of senior management of businesses when there's been a problem, particularly in those business which the BBC does not approve of. And what of the climate of fear which we have heard so much of at the BBC? Again if this were to be in another organisation, the BBC would be highly critical and demanding change.

It stinks to High Heaven, the BBC is not fit to exist, it entire senior management would resign if they had any honour, but they don't, and its protectors should be removed from their positions.