London – Hugh Grant late Monday called the BBC crisis that led to the weekend resignation of director general George Entwistle "a huge cock up," or blunder. Grant, appearing late Tuesday night on commercial broadcaster ITV1's The Agenda, a nightly news discussion show, said the misstep by BBC news flagship Newsnight, which wrongly implicated a politician in a child abuse scandal, was "a terrible thing." Grant noted, however, the difference between the BBC's reaction and that of U.K. newspapers when they have been accused of slander in recent years. "What interests me is the difference in the
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- 11/13/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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