George Entwistle

The head of the BBC has quit after they wrongly accused a Tory peer of being a pedo:

The BBC’s top executive resigned last night after the prestigious broadcaster’s marquee news magazine wrongly implicated a British politician in a child sex-abuse scandal, deepening the crisis that exploded after it decided not to air similar allegations against one of its own stars who police now say was one of the nation’s worst pedophiles.

In a brief statement outside BBC headquarters, George Entwistle said he decided to do the “honourable thing” and step down after just eight weeks in the job.

“The wholly exceptional events of the past few weeks have led me to conclude that the BBC should appoint a new leader,” he said.

ITV’s Philip Schofield will be next for his ambush of David Cameron.

After years of covering up for Jimmy Savile in various media outfits they are now dropping like flies.

The Director General of the BBC is acting just like the Pope, the only difference between the two is Jimmy Savile was diddling girls and not boys;

The new Director General of the BBC has written to staff to say he is ‘appalled’ by allegations made against Jimmy Savile and has promised to work closely with the police, but ruled out an inquiry.

There will be a massive pay out too.

ᔥ The Telegraph

George Entwistle has been appointed as BBC Director-General, some are wondering if this marks the end and a move away from its lefty mindset:

It looks as though BBC chairman Lord Patten, the former Tory chairman, has sensibly steered the selection away from the overtly Lefty candidates Caroline Thompson and Ed Richards to a more independently-minded candidate.

Michael Crick, who worked on Newsnight when it was edited by Entwistle, says the new DG has in the past boasted that after leaving university he worked for a while for Michael Heseltine – not in a political capacity, but in Haymarket publishing, Hezza’ magazine company. This is Crick’s take on  Entwistle: “I vividly recall him saying that our job every day was to come in and ask ourselves: “How can we f*** the government today?”  Now I should stress that by ‘government’, Entwistle didn’t mean the specific government at that time (which was the Blair administration) but people in power in general, and he thought it was our duty to hold them to account. I thought it was a great maxim for journalists.” You certainly can’t imagine Thompson or Richards saying that about a Labour government. Perhaps, at long last, we are about to see a shift in the Beeb’s Left-liberal mindset.