BBC's Savile Report Goes Easy on New NYT Co. CEO Mark Thompson; Times

December 20th, 2012 1:55 PM
A report into the British Broadcasting Corporation handling of the Jimmy Savile child-sex abuse scandal was released Wednesday, and the upper management of the BBC got off lightly, though the management culture of the BBC came in for criticism. One prominent member of that management: Mark Thompson, who served as director-general of the BBC for eight years until earlier this year, when he…