WHAT THE PAPERS SAY


May 2001 - July 2001

Financial Times - 20 June 2001
"Panorama, banished to the wastes of Sunday night, has reacted by producing some of its most striking work in years."

The Guardian - 23 July 2001
"At a time when our (journalists') integrity is in the public mind down there in the sewers, roughly on a par with professional extortionists and worse, politicians, Michael Crick's Panorama on Jeffrey Archer last Thursday night can allow us all to walk a little taller."

The Times - 9 July 2001
"It is depressing that we should rely on the media to ferret these stories out, but thank heavens they do and more grease to Panorama's elbow."

Independent on Sunday - 8 July 2001
"This series of the current affairs strand concludes by raising serious doubts about an issue that is hardly ever questioned: the reliability of fingerprint analysis."

The Daily Telegraph - 7 July 2001
"The ramifications for cases solved through fingerprint evidence is terrifying - lawyers stand by your phones."

Sunday Business - 17 June 2001
"BBC's Panorama is standing its ground after incurring the wrath of Israel over allegations to be broadcast tonight."

FT Weekend - 16 June 2001
"Panorama is still doing sterling work... Bankable Fergal Keane fronts the inquiry, a sign of how seriously even the BBC's powers that be are taking it."

The Financial Times - 20 June 2001
"an admirably calm and analytical - and consequently powerfully impressive - review of the Sabra and Shatila massacres."

Daily Mail - 5 June 2001
"A devastating exposé of the sleight of hand the Government has used to produce 'cuts' in hospital waiting lists and 'savings' on NHS red tape, and to claim credit for reducing class sizes in primary schools."

The Financial Times - 6 June 2001
"A brave 'Panorama' shows how broadcast political reporting is changing"

The Financial Times - 6 June 2001
"The programme had a big impact, not only because of what it said about government manipulation of figures but because Panorama is Panorama: a very old warhorse, perhaps, and long in the tooth, yet, for that very reason, loaded with prestige as the oldest current affairs programme in the UK and carrying the BBC banner. Had John Ware done his report for a newspaper, it is unlikely that it would have caused such fury."

Scotland on Sunday - 27 May 2001
"Panorama delved into the festering world of cricket match-fixing and illegal gambling, heaping more woe on a game struggling to maintain its credibility."

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