Newsnight Scandal

Newsnight Scandal Summary

• The newsnight scandal has to be one of the biggest scandals of the past decade.
• It began when Newsnight had enough evidence to break the Jimmy Saville incident but had a slot to have a tribute act for him
• This was very controversial as they decided to opt out of revealing anything as they believed that their reputation would be damaged. 
• With Newsnight already being in a bad state they decided to do the foolish thing to accuse Lord Alpine of child abuse, using tweets as evidence.
• These accusations were obviously wrong and has had a drastic effect on Newsnights programme
• It is now being considered as to whether the show should be cancelled or not.