Lorraine Heggessey involved in the dismissal of "Blue Peter" presenter Richard Bacon. In October 1998, the "News of the World" newspaper revealed that Bacon had taken cocaine, and he was subsequently sacked from his job as a presenter on the high-profile children's programme. Heggessey appeared on-screen in a specially-recorded one-minute address to viewers shown directly before the first episode of "Blue Peter" to be screened following Bacon's sacking, on 19 October 1998, to explain to young viewers why Bacon had been dismissed, claiming that he had "not only let himself and the team on "Blue Peter" down, but he has also let
Media Research Center that when politicians are involved in scandal, their party affiliation is brought up more often when they are Republican than Democrat; for example, they have said that Senator Robert Packwood's Republican affiliation was brought up in most reports about his sexual scandals, but Representative Gary Condit's Democratic affiliation was ignored when he had the same problem, that the media is sympathetic to Communism or "dictators", that media coverage of global warming is biased in favor of environmentalism, and that the media focuses on covering the negative side of the Iraq War. In 1999, the MRC reported that the network news