11-03-2012, 08:38 AM
it does look like he played a part and that he was aware of the savile scandal. i can'y imagine such a high profile person in a company not being made aware of problems that are likely to throw sit into a spinning fan. he more or less admitted that he should have done things differently and that he was unhappy with rippons blog as to why the program was pulled. lets face such a scandal over such a big star would be an instant best seller....so why pull it?
Quote:George Entwistle will not want to read this morning's newspapers. The BBC's director-general gets a very bad press indeed over the Jimmy Savile scandal.
His performance in front of the Commons culture select committee yesterday is criticised by leader writers, sketch writers and columnists.
The Sun - 24 October 2012 The Sun's Jimmy Savile splash
Rupert Murdoch's red-top reacted as one would expect. The Sun splashed with the headline "Baffled, Bumbling, Clueless". And its leading article stuck the boot into Entwistle as "weak, incurious… a bewildered man out of his depth."
Next to that was a column by a former Today programme editor, Rod Liddle, headlined "Liar, liar, Aunt's on fire".
By contrast, The Sun's Wapping partner, The Times, was altogether more sympathetic in its editorial by recognising that Entwistle was subjected to "the worst kind of grandstanding" by MPs.
It said: "Premature dancing on the grave of the BBC is distasteful. Great organisations make great mistakes and good people can allow bad things to take place… It is now for the two inquiries to address them."
But this was balanced by The Times's revelatory splash - "BBC boss is accused of blocking Savile exposé" - which was based on a claim that the head of news, Helen Boaden, influenced the decision by Newsnight editor Peter Rippon to drop its investigation.