The BBC and Princess Diana.

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I don't see why Martin Bashir is being vilified so much, perhaps if he had worked for the Sun it would have been seen as normal journalistic practice, anything to get a story.

You're probably right Chris, but he didn't work for the Sun did he, he was working for, and on behalf of, the BBC, our national broadcaster, which routinely sneers at the Murdoch Empire, and newspapers like the Mail and the Sun. It would have us believe that it holds itself to higher journalistic standards than the gutter press, as indeed it should, but it turns out it's employees occupy the same sewer. Which is why imo, Bashir is being vilified.