BBC Crisis Thread

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George Entwistle has resigned as Director General, as a result of the latest Newsnight fiasco. He was DG for about two months.

What next/where does this leave the Corporation/etc?

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As you can't libel the dead, Peter Morrison. MP for Chester 1974-1992, a junior minister and Party functionary in the 1980s, and Thatcher's PPS in 1990. He ran her unsuccessful internal re-election campaign that year and did a spectacularly bad job of it. There have been all kinds of rumours about him for decades (he was a well known closet case), and they re-emerged this October as actual accusations, initially from Rod Richards (controversial former Tory MP and former leader of the Welsh Tories for all of five seconds in 1999), and then from other sources.

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Who gives a flying fyck about comedians? Jesus.

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I'd imagine that this is the end of Newsnight - it sat on one story and jumped the gun on another that was completely inaccurate. It'll probably be best for the BBC to replace it with a similar, but not identical show with a different presenter.

The quality of the programme has been in obvious decline for a couple of years now anyway; I used to watch it as routine, but now do only a couple of times a week (if that).