A ghost and the BBC machine

摘要

It took decades for Jimmy Savile to become a beloved national institution, but only a few weeks for his ghost to trash another one. On October 3rd a documentary screened on itv, a commercial broadcaster, showed interviews with several people who claimed they had been abused as children by Savile, a hugely popular bbc presenter who had died a year earlier. Since then the police have been deluged with further accounts of abuse, not all of it allegedly perpetrated by Savile.