BBC Director General Tim Davie was confronted in an interview on the BBC Radio 4 today with a presenter telling him “everyone in this building knows who it is”.
When pressed by Sarah Montague if he had spoken to the presenter at the centre of an ongoing scandal, Mr Davie said “personally, no” but that he had been spoken to by a member of senior management.
Mr Davie added: “In terms of the situation we’ve got on our hands here, I want to say one thing upfront, which is you are balancing serious allegations, duty of care, privacy issues, and legitimate public interest, and how do you navigate that fairly, calmly and do due diligence.
“I’ve given a bit of context to a few people in terms of the numbers of issues we get coming into our corporate investigations unit and every six months that’ll be about 250.
“And you take those, and they are the serious complaints that are coming through, of all different types.
