BBC faces more fallout on Savile scandal

October 22, 2012 22:21

The BBC faced growing fallout today over sexual abuse allegations against a popular children's TV entertainer, as Prime Minister David Cameron accused the broadcaster of changing its story about why it killed a news segment on the accusations.

The powerful broadcaster tried to stem the damage, saying in a statement that a top editor had stepped down from its BBC Newsnight programme after he was found to have given incomplete, inaccurate explanations for the decision to keep an investigation of the late Jimmy Savile from being broadcast in December. The scandal is one of the worst to rock the BBC, long a key player in British public life and often cited as one of the most trusted sources of accurate, unbiased information.

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