Patten: BBC needs to get itself back on track
As another storm batters the BBC, Lord Patten wants the corporation to earn its broadcasting spurs once more.
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As another storm batters the BBC, Lord Patten wants the corporation to earn its broadcasting spurs once more.
Further members of staff could be following former director-general George Entwistle out of the doors of the BBC in the wake of the Newsnight scandal, BBC Trust Chairman Lord Patten says.
A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general says.
George Entwistle announces his resignation as BBC director-general, seven weeks after moving into the post, after a Newsnight report which wrongly implicated a senior Tory politician in child abuse.
An inquiry into the “culture and practices” at the BBC during presenter Jimmy Savile’s campaign of sexual abuse is to begin today.
If George Entwistle’s select committee appearance shed light on anything, it was the convoluted layers of BBC management and blurred lines of editorial responsibility.
BBC Director-General George Entwistle tells MPs up to 10 “serious allegations” are being investigated and that the corporation’s previous practices seemed “to allow” Jimmy Savile to abuse young girls.
The BBC says Newsnight Editor Peter Rippon will “step aside with immediate effect” pending an investigation into the decision to drop the programme’s report into allegations against DJ Jimmy Savile.
George Entwistle faces a Commons select committee to answer questions over the BBC’s role in the Jimmy Savile scandal, but what will he be asked?
More allegations emerge as a senior Newsnight producer says he warned his editor the BBC could be accused of a cover up if it ditched an investigation into Jimmy Savile.
The ruckus about why the BBC’s investigation into abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile was dropped, has revealed divisions between editorial staff and the corporation’s management.