BBC editor steps aside over Savile scandal
EntertainmentOct 22, 2012
LONDON (AFP) - The head of the BBC's flagship current affairs TV programme stepped aside on Monday as accusations grew of a cover-up of sexual abuse claims against late television star Jimmy Savile.Newsnight editor Peter Rippon had given an inaccurate account of why the show dropped its investigation into Savile, the shamed presenter who died last year, the BBC said in a statement.The BBC, the world's largest public broadcaster, has launched two independent inquiries into the allegations about S