BBC admit: We got it wrong

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HE BBC’s flagship current affairs programme Newsnight has been strongly criticised by its own standards watchdog for its handling of an interview with former Chief Minister Frank Walker about events at Haut de la Garenne.
The programme, in which ex-Senator Walker was grilled by star presenter Jeremy Paxman, ‘distorted the facts and misled its audience’, the BBC Trust has ruled in response to a complaint about the broadcast a year ago yesterday.
The damning report from the trust, published today, criticises Newsnight for the way Senator Walker was portrayed during the interview with Mr Paxman two days after the first claims, now dismissed, that children may have been murdered at the former home.
Senator Walker and former Health and Social Services Minster Stuart Syvret were interviewed live outside Haut de la Garenne, where ex-deputy police chief Lenny Harper had sparked off an international media frenzy with a press conference to announce that human remains had been found there.
A complaint made by a member of the public against the programme has been upheld, and the trust is to write to the BBC’s deputy director-general to ensure that programme makers correct ‘serious errors’ in future.

This is a brilliant week for the 'establishment' isn't it? They can do no wrong, while the opposition fall over themselves to show how weak they are.