With senior journalism lecturer at UWE Phil Chamberlain and TV documentary maker Tim Tate. Discussion: ‘Is Investigative Journalism Dead?’ between Tim Tate, documentary maker and author, and Phil Chamberlain, Senior Journalism Lecturer at University of the West of England (UWE) and author of ‘Blacklisted: The Secret War between Big Business and Union Activists. Will the internet do the job of big documentary teams? Paul Foot; investigative journalism being starved; enormous cost of hard-hitting investigations; after 1988 Thames TV documentary about the SAS executing IRA terrorists ‘Death on the Rock’ but Tories didn’t like it, Thames TV ‘lost’ their licence. Thatcher changed quotas for TV; Panorama, Dispatches; Cook Report; lawyers; Boeing; ‘Blacklisted’ book by Phil; child sexual abuse – Liz MacKean’s Savile piece pulled from BBC’s Newsnight editor Peter Ripon then subsequent story by Miles Goslett was refused by every national newspaper, finally published in The Oldie (whose editor Richard Ingrams was subsequently sacked); clip from Tim’s film ‘Conspiracy of Silence’ about child sexual abuse, FBI and The Franklin Scandal which was pulled from Discovery Channel; does investigative journalism change anything? Watergate, US investigative journalist Michael Hastings killed investigating CIA spying on journalists and elected politicians.
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