Pollard report: key points - Telegraph Paxman also claimed that the decision to axe the Newsnight investigation was a "corporate decision." Just hours after Savile's death Newsnight producer Meirion Jones suggested the idea of an investigation, as he explained: "he's dead, so he can't sue." Helen Boaden said she initially misunderstood the proposed Savile investigation during her first discussion with Peter Rippon in November 2011, a few weeks after Savile died. She said she "got the wrong end of the stick" and thought it was a "one of those slightly tabloid-esque stories involving groupies." Posts left on a BBC tribute page to Savile, which included accusations of abuse by him, were censored by moderators employed by the BBC. These included a comment which read "One of my best friends in 1972 was molested by this creep Savile. He was never the same again. Killed himself in 1985. How's about that then? Lord Patten, BBC Trust General, blamed the number of senior leaders who were on the management team at the BBC, who had never met. He compared the BBC's newsroom to the Chinese communist party Transcripts reveal that Lord Patten claims George Entwistle persuaded him not to launch an investigation into the axing of the Newsnight programme, at a meeting on 9 October 2012. Just 24 hours later, after Lord Patten had been on Radio 4 stating there would not be an investigation, he claimed George Entwistle changed his mind Peter Rippon posted a blog in October 2012 about his decision to axe the Newsnight programme. Jeremy Paxman is reported to have warned Rippon about the blog. When it was later found to contain factual errors it had to be withdrawn and Rippon has now been moved to an archive job Despite the BBC's insistence to be transparent about the investigation, some of the evidence has been blacked out - amounting to around 90 pages.