s flagship current affairs program news night and although it didn't name the person that steve messam was accusing the program did give rise. a frenzy of speculation all over twitter and other social networking sites which led to a former conservative policy treasurer being named lord mcalpine was eventually named on social networking sites and then went public to defend himself he said he'd never done this he very quickly denied the accusations he started to sue anyone and everyone and only was this steve messam showing a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all so that was a really short piece of investigative journalism that comes in the wake of that haven't been enough in itself of the jimmy savile scandal again that newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile and there have been again wave after wave of allegations people coming forward saying yes jimmy savile did abuse me that program was spi

money will be paid by the taxpayer just the latest thing is these allegations by a man called steve messam who said that he was repeatedly sexually abused as a child by a senior politician that was reported on the b.b.c.'s flagship current affairs program news night and all only often that was this steve messam shown a photograph of lord mcalpine and he said oh no actually i'm sorry i was mistaken it wasn't him after all if that hadn't been enough in itself of of the jimmy savile scandal again newsnight had done an investigation into jimmy savile who was a much loved children's entertainer back when i was growing up which essentially exposed him as a paedophile that program though was spiked by b.b.c. b.b.c. leadership they were ordered to drop it at least in part because other parts of the b.b.c. were preparing a programme that said how wonderful jimmy savile was going of course it's not just news that the b.b.c. does they do a range of programs nature documentaries etc etc so it has been a much loved it loved institution and people hope i think that this change of management will will ma