Questions about the journalists’s record were not addressed by those who gave him his most recent job, says Panorama reporter
John Ware, the reporter behind the devastating
BBC Panorama investigation into Martin Bashir’s famous 1995 interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, claims the BBC bosses who gave the reporter his most recent
Job were blinded by the depth of his theological knowledge.
According to Ware, the small BBC appointments board that gave Bashir the role of religious affairs correspondent in 2016 did not ask questions about his dubious record at the BBC, nor at Tonight on ITV, where he had interviewed Michael Jackson, nor in America at ABC and then
NBC. Criticism of his methods and attitudes had made newspaper headlines several times with each broadcaster. Instead, Bashir’s response to a question that was asked of all candidates about the doctrine of St Paul won them over.