This is the key passage though

"it was 40 years ago... the girls were teenagers, not too young... they weren't the worst kind of sexual offences etc"

So, not really an issue of the story standing up, but a senior BBC manager basically saying it wasn't all that bad or relevant.

Posted By: norway on October 23rd 2012 at 15:05:55

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I was slightly nervous about how the Savile story had become a BBC story (General Chat) - norway, Oct 23, 14:56:51
- Surely for "BBC" read "one man"? His decision? (n/m) (General Chat) - megson, Oct 23, 15:03:08
- seems that the non reporting after his death (General Chat) - SCC 28, Oct 23, 15:01:52
  - This ^ He was allowed to get away with it for years with a lot of people now saying that (General Chat) - jafski, Oct 23, 15:08:01
    - The whole of Fleet Street knew about it, just trying to pin all on the BBC to get the heat (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 23, 15:09:21
      - Oh I agree, no end of people could have brought him down. (General Chat) - jafski, Oct 23, 15:10:19
        
        And yet they didn't - none of them - why? I don't get it... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Oct 23, 15:26:32
        
        you have to remember this all happened in a different (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 23, 15:41:56
        
        Not 5 years ago it wasn't... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Oct 23, 16:08:28
        
        fair point if just 5 years ago (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Oct 23, 16:35:09
        
        Savile was litigious, prob lack of victim testimony and no desire to go looking for it (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 23, 15:30:40
        
        That's never bothered the liked of The Sun before... (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Oct 23, 15:33:10
        
        Maybe his establishment connections saved him from investigation? (n/m) (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 23, 15:37:38
        
        Knew Thatcher didn't he? (n/m) (General Chat) - Huge Small, Oct 23, 15:43:29
        
        Yes, maybe: something stinks (n/m) (General Chat) - Dandy Highburyman, Oct 23, 16:09:24
        
        I read that a tabloid was going to expose him and he basically said, if you do that's all (General Chat) - jafski, Oct 23, 16:12:59
        
        I agree with you. and me (General Chat) - Hertz van Rental, Oct 23, 15:12:08
        
        Good. (n/m) (General Chat) - jafski, Oct 23, 15:13:32
  - This is the key passage though (General Chat) - norway, Oct 23, 15:05:55
    - Do you think he meant "not too young" (General Chat) - duke of york, Oct 23, 15:10:28
    - Yep. That's the attitude that allowed him to get away with it for so long. (General Chat) - jafski, Oct 23, 15:09:26
      - Apparently he used to answer his phone with (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 23, 15:13:35
- "killing" the story seems criminal now,but isn;t the issue the fact that the beeb let this (General Chat) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Oct 23, 15:01:28

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