The BBC’s shameful treatment of freelance graphic designer Matt Wiessler in the the Panorama / Princess Diana scandal will come as no surprise to BBC whistleblowers everyuwhere. It is standard BBC practice to protect senior management salaries and pensions by framing and sacrificing outsiders.
We blew the whistle on dodgy BBC documentary funding. We then made a film with a minor conflict of interst of no editorial consequence (this has never been in dispute). The BBC seized the moment and we were framed with serious funding allegations, all false, that came out of an internal BBC inquiry by Hugh Saxby, who made no contact with us. The BBC then used this to distract from the fact that they were broadcasting films about Malaysia paid for by now imprisoned xxxx and made by Trump fraudster Paul Manafort’s close colleagues.
Not one of the BBC’s Trustee ever made contact with us. BBC Dumpster in Chief Peter Horrocks led the attack on us and one of the world’s biggest Foundations called him a “wanker” for disseminating his myth. That’s him crying in the picture above.
Five years later OFCOM investigated the BBC’s allegations and binned all the charges bar one – which fell outside OFCOM’s remit.
The next year the BBC was forced to retract its last allegation. The film had not been funded by the charity which appeared in it – something that had been known and in print from the beginning. The BBC announced this climb-down by burying a single sentence deep in its final report. It said the claim had been the consequence of a Summaring Error.