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>>nemoni+(OP)
> The Guardian asked the BBC if it was confident in his claimed financial returns and questioned why the programme’s promotional material did not mention that Hassan’s cryptocurrency Orfano was abruptly shut down in October, with many unhappy investors claiming they were left out of pocket as a result.

I feel like this is the key thing. He probably made the money with a scamcoin and the BBC nearly aired something that didn't even include this fairly critical fact?

>>antihe+B2
> it was one of the channel’s headline commissions for its new regional television news show We Are England. This new show replaced the long-running Inside Out regional current affairs series, which was cancelled as part of BBC funding cuts in a decision that resulted in many investigative journalists based outside London losing their jobs.

> Continuing cuts to BBC budgets and deep job cuts, caused by successive licence fee freezes, have been blamed for recent errors in the corporation’s news output, especially in regional English newsrooms.

Lack of funding lead to budget cuts which lead to worse quality journalism which will probably be used to justify reduced funding in the future.

>>wongar+z3
Right - BBC is the victim.

> Lack of funding lead to budget cuts which lead to worse quality journalism

Nonsense.

>>JackFr+R5
Can you please follow the site guidelines when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html