The BBC has said that it will return a BAFTA it won in 1996 for its explosive Panorama interview with Princess Diana after an independent inquiry savaged the tactics used by reporter Martin Bashir to secure the sit-down.Former Supreme Court judge Lord Dyson concluded today that Bashir, the former MSNBC anchor, used forged bank statements to secure access to the Princess of Wales in 1995 and that the BBC was “woefully ineffective” in getting to the bottom of his wrongdoing at the time.Dyson’s excoriating investigation is being described as a phone-hacking moment for the BBC.
Dyson said Bashir “deceived” his way to the interview that made his name, while the BBC “fell short of the high standards of integrity and transparency which are its
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