you have _ convincing witness. —— laura dyson. you have to — convincing witness. —— laura dyson.ks like poor me, still whether you believe it but it looks like poor me, ...— like poor me, still with the bbc. like poor me, still with the sac. hinted _ like poor me, still with the sac. hinted at _ like poor me, still with the sac. hinted at by _ like poor me, still with the sac. hinted at by nigel, - like poor me, still with the - bbc. hinted at by nigel, frontpage, what needs to be done, we must act to tackle appalling failures at bbc 0ne's ministers. nigel, pick up on where you left off. one's ministers. nigel, pick up on where you left off.— where you left off. indeed. the threat here _ where you left off. indeed. the threat here is _ where you left off. indeed. the threat here is that _ where you left off. indeed. the threat here is that ministers i where you left off. indeed. the | threat here is that ministers will actually decide the governance of the bbc. now, my own view is this would be a mistake, that if we are to have a free media in this country, it is very important t

there is no getting away from that with the report by laura dyson on the way the bbc handled the martinerview completely damning of management and damning of the journalist himself of the way he got this interview and what is really happening now is that is not only the report but the response to the report. that is incredibly harmful for the bbc�*s reputation because we have prince william coming out and say this really distressed his mother and prince harry saying something similar and lord spencer, diana's brother, saying as well, so all these major members of the royal family and also members of diana's family and also members of diana's family saying how damaging this was. so there is more to come on this. it is not a case of the report is out and we have said sorry and that is the end of it, i think there will be more repercussions. what they will be is hard to say because many of the people who are involved in it have now left the bbc. we will see how this works out but i suspect strongly we have not heard the last of this. , , strongly we have not heard the last of this.- there'

this new investigation came as the inquiry headed out by laura dyson, came about because of changes inia that we are seeing. we had the phone hacking scandal that took place ten years ago and a number of them brought back and investigated, as a result this has come to life and been accepted by the bbc who always denied it. there will be ramifications we just don't know at the moment but the press are being held to account more and more over here. you mentioned the phone hacking, which took place around ten years ago, that absolutely changed the way the media was seen over here. it was the wild west for them, they were hacking into prince harry's voice mail, the voice mails were just generic passwords and all this information is being flashed over to the newspapers and they really cracked down on that and what we are seeing now, frankly, is the media continuing to try to clean themselves up and perhaps address old mistakes. >> jesse: thanks a lot, benjamin. i guess it's true that media corruption has no borders. and prince harry has released a statement saying "to those who have taken s

and on wednesday, sirjames dyson wrote an article in the daily telegraph in which he laid into the way bbc news had reported the story. he went on to criticise lauraerg, writing... sirjames added that he was responding to the prime minister's urgent call for help with ventilators, and that he was looking not for any favours, but for clarification on the tax status of his employees. and this is what the bbc had to say on the matter. but some newswatch viewers were still unhappy, with nick reilly describing the coverage as... on several occasions this week, bbcjournalists questioned government ministers about these various allegations, and one of those occasions came during wednesday's downing street press conference, with this encounter between laura kuenssberg and the health secretary, matt hancock. if a serving government minister is found to have broken the rules on party funding or even law, should they resign? given that this is a coronavirus press conference, you won't be surprised that i'm not going to add to the answers the prime minister's already given to very extensive questioning. thanks. a number of newswatch viewers thought that wasn'

and on wednesday, sirjames dyson wrote an article in the daily telegraph in which he laid into the way bbc news had reported the story. he went on to criticise laurand the health secretary, matt hancock. if a serving government minister is found to have broken the rules on party funding or even law, should they resign? given that this is a coronavirus press conference, you won't be surprised that i'm not going to add to the answers the prime minister's already given to very extensive questioning. thanks. a number of newswatch viewers thought that wasn't an appropriate forum for a question on that subject. one of them, bridget herniman, recorded this video for us. i find the national coronavirus - briefings a really important portal for all of us in the uk to get the most up—to—date and i i also find the questioning - from the press really important. l i was therefore horrified to find . that laura kuenssberg chose to use i bbc's slot to ask a, quite frankly, i ridiculous question on the pm's flat renovation costs while we have thousands dying in india. - i would've much ratherl seen a specific question on the england variant - and implications to