‘Serious failings’ at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked … Dame Janet Smith report finds ‘climate of fear’ at BBC ‘Macho culture’ led employees to keep quiet … She concluded that “an atmosphere of fear still exists today in the BBC possibly because obtaining work in the BBC is highly competitive and many people no longer have the security on an employment contract”. –The Guardian

We can see from the above excerpt that a two-year investigation into the BBC has concluded with a statement that, “an atmosphere of fear” reigns at the media giant that allowed Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall “to sexually abuse nearly 100 people without detection for decades.”

While the report’s conclusions seem valid, in reality they confirm a much more powerful and fundamental difficulty with the BBC, which is that like almost all Western media outlets, it is a facility of…