[BITList] discipline BBC style

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disciplinary action, yeah – slap their wrists, give them 250,000 pounds and send them on 6 months paid leave for their transgression.

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          Newsnight: executives could face disciplinary actionA BBC internal inquiry has concluded that there had been 'unacceptable' editorial failings involved in the broadcast
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            b.. The Guardian, Monday 12 November 2012 16.58 EST
           
          BBC sources said that two executives are expected to be face a disciplinary ­process Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
          Two BBC executives involved with the Newsnight broadcast that wrongly linked a "senior Conservative" – widely understood to be Lord McAlpine – to child abuse allegations face the prospect of disciplinary action, after a BBC internal inquiry concluded that there had been "unacceptable" editorial failings involved in the broadcast.

          BBC sources said that Liz Gibbons, the programme's acting editor, and Adrian Van Klaveran, the supervising executive seconded from his job running Radio 5 Live, are expected to face a disciplinary process that could result in them being sacked or exonerated.

          A summary of a BBC report, written by Ken MacQuarrie the broadcaster's Scotland director, examining the circumstances around Newsnight's error of mistaken identity – which is likely to see the corporation on the receiving end of legal action from McAlpine – said "basic editorial checks were not completed".
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