Ex-BBC Boss Admits Explosive Diana Interview Was ‘One of the Biggest Crimes in the History of Broadcasting’

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Former head of the BBC tells British MPs that it wasn’t until he saw Bashir’s interview with Michael Jackson that he felt “uneasy” about his former star reporter.

European Editor at Large

Published Jun. 15 2021 8:49AM EDT

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John Birt, the director general of the BBC at the time of Martin Bashir’s famous Panorama interview with Princess Diana, now says Bashir was a “serial liar on an industrial scale.”

Lord Birt, who was the head of the BBC from 1992 to 2000, was being grilled Tuesday by British lawmakers...

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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Ex-BBC Boss Admits Explosive Diana Interview Was ‘One of the Biggest Crimes in the History of Broadcasting’

Former head of the BBC tells British MPs that it wasn’t until he saw Bashir’s interview with Michael Jackson that he felt “uneasy” about his former star reporter.

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