More On Motes and Beams...BBC reporter denies excluding ‘unhelpful comments’ about Adams claim
Posted by Ed on May 15, 2025, 12:34 am
Referencing Scrabb's earlier post, "the BBC's Director General sounds a warning about the lack of trust shown by the British public and puts his finger on the cause -- all these competing alternative channels and sources of information that are unregulated and giving out false news."
Yeah, and his BiBiC is right at the top of the list of suspects!
quote: BBC reporter denies excluding ‘unhelpful comments’ about Adams claim
A BBC reporter has denied excluding “unhelpful comments” and contradictions to the claim that Gerry Adams sanctioned the killing of a spy.
Speaking in a Dublin court, Jennifer O’Leary said she took the “utmost care and responsibility” with the allegation that Mr Adams had sanctioned the killing of former Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson.
She denied that she “yanked” out other statements from a programme to make the allegation against Mr Adams “a bit bigger”.
Mr Adams is suing the BBC in the High Court over what he has called a “grievous smear” in a documentary that alleged he sanctioned the killing of a Sinn Fein administrator revealed to be a British spy.
He claims a BBC Spotlight programme, and an accompanying online story, defamed him by alleging he sanctioned the killing of Denis Donaldson.
Mr Donaldson was shot dead in 2006, months after admitting he was a police and MI5 agent for 20 years.
In 2009 the Real IRA claimed responsibility for the killing, and the Spotlight programme was broadcast in September 2016 while a garda investigation into the matter was ongoing.
In the programme, an anonymous source identified as “Martin”, who says he was an informant for Special Branch within the IRA, claimed that the shooting was sanctioned by the political and military leadership of the IRA and that Mr Adams “gives the final say”...
on May 15, 2025, 12:34 am