[Bangla Daily Star] BBC director general George Entwistle has resigned over airing of mistaken allegations of child sex abuse against a former leading politician.The resignation came on Saturday, just two months after he got the job.
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BBC's governing board chief Chris Patten yesterday called for a radical overhaul of the world's largest broadcaster.
Patten, also a prominent political figure, said accepting Entwistle's resignation had made for one of the saddest nights of his public life.
He said the crisis had revealed a need for a "thorough, structural, radical overhaul" of the organization, although he said he would not be quitting.
Entwistle's departure leaves the state-funded broadcaster in chaos as it struggles to restore trust in its journalism and battles the scandal surrounding Jimmy Savile, the late BBC television star now alleged to have been a prolific child sex offender.
The organization issued a full apology on Friday, but early on Saturday Entwistle had to admit under questioning from his own journalists that he had not known in advance about the Newsnight report, weeks after being accused of being too hands-off over a previous scandal involving the same programme.
He resigned saying the unacceptable standards of the Newsnight film had damaged the public's confidence in the 90-year-old BBC.
"As the director general of the BBC, I am ultimately responsible for all content as the editor-in-chief, and I have therefore decided that the honourable thing for me to do is to step down," he said.