Fear and failure flow through the BBC’s hardened corporate arteries | Simon Jenkins

What the Jimmy Savile report exposes most clearly is the intimate relationship between size and disaster in institutions

Do you go into work afraid? Do you sense a “culture of fear” around you?

That is the phrase thrown at the BBC by Dame Janet Smith’s report on the Savile affair. It is hardly unique. It was used of the fate of NHS whistleblowers. It underlies the police behaviour in Rotherham’s sex exploitation case. It underpins many banking scandals.

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