Director-General of BBC resigns in response to Newsnight 'Scandal'

[JoeZhang]

This story is moving pretty quickly, now the Director General of the BBC has resigned after a frankly astonishing Newsnight*. I think he was in post for seven weeks?


The tory press is going to love this.


* It was like an episode of Brasseye, "We the BBC asked the BBC for a comment about us the BBC but they/we refused to comment".

 

[JoeZhang]

What really killed him off was this terrible terrible interview with John Humphrys

 

[cultcross]

Someone's always got to resign when paedophilia's involved.

Even when it actually wasn't.

 

[Ethros]

Are they getting Chris Feather to replace him?

 

[Hound of UIster]

False accusations are also pretty damaging.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

They didn't name him though, yet ITV let Philip Schofield show is name on a list and nothing has happened there.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^I am scratching my head at this one too, although the BBC needs to investigate and answer qustions about the whole Savile scandal, i have no idea what's going on with newsnight seeing as nobody was named in any of the pieces they did over the week....only place naming people seems to have been on the internet.

 

[Mary Ann]

My guess is that ITV can get away with it because it's not in receipt of public money. As the vast majority of British citizens pay for a TV licence fee it's as if the BBC should be held more accountable for screw ups, which, in cases such as this, makes no sense. ITV was much further in the wrong, but there's no baying for its blood.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Well i just saw that the BBC issued Entwistle a golden handshake as he jumped ship.........that's going to go down well across the board. lol

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Wasn't so much a golden handshake as paying him is wage. But the daft thing is his contract only calls for 6 months, so if he wasn't pushed why give him the 12 months?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

He had a clause in his contract that stated he got a extra £50000 added to his final pay for everytime he said "I had no idea what's was going on"... lol

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Link

BBC must restore public trust, insist people who the public don’t trust

MPs have called for the BBC to act quickly to restore the public’s trust in the organisation despite opinion polls suggesting that the public trust MPs less than the distance they are able to throw them.
John Whittingdale, Tory chairman of the commons culture committee, whose expenses claims include £1,828 for bathroom fittings, £1,800 for a replacement boiler and £774 for a sofa and rug from Laura Ashley, said that the public’s confidence in the organisation has been “dented”.
The Conservative MP for Maldon, who also claimed £1,014 for a bed for his flat in Westminster despite it being less than 60 miles away from his constituency, went on to insist that the public would be “surprised” at the decision to pay a year’s salary to Mr Entwistle.
Harriet Harman, who proposed a rule change to exempt MPs’ expenses from the Freedom of Information Act, insisted that the payout given to Mr Entwistle is “unjustifiable” and is “not the correct way to restore public confidence”.
The deputy leader of the Labour Party, who, amongst other things, bought an old-fashioned tartan shopping trolley and a digital camera using her Parliamentary allowances, said: “It looks like a reward for failure.”


Read more: http://newsthump.com/2012/11/12/bbc...ople-who-the-public-dont-trust/#ixzz2C0Q1Hedn

 

[lurok]

I see what you did there. Delicious irony. I would cite pigs and troughs but it would be insulting to pigs. In other news, apparently Helen Boaden (head of news) has 'stepped aside' (whatever that means). She had potential to be first woman D-G, but this farrago has tainted her.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Her and her deputy, wasn't it?

 

[Starkers]

The BBC seem to be trapped in some kind of hideous death maze at the moment, where every step they take seems to be the wrong one. Case in point, Entwhistle resigning may or may not be the right thing to have happened, but to then double the payoff he was entitled to was plain suicidal, it makes you wonder how out of touch senior managers must be if they didn’t know how that would play!

Again the BBC are getting all the stick however, really the police need some serious investigating given some police officer told that man who’d been abused that a photo of one of his attackers was Lord McAlpine when it wasn’t. Irrespective of what party/gender/income bracket etc you are, to be falsely accused of child abuse must be one of the most horrible things you can go through, and I hope McAlpine sues; Schofield might have imagined he’s got off, but if Mcalpine’s name was one of the ones on view then ITV are a potential target, apparently the speaker’s wife Sally Bercow is as well given she’d helped spread the word on Twitter.