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[Bionic]

Only a mere 54 days in the job and this leader of the BBC has been forced to resign over affairs that had happened many years before his appoinment. He had no influence over the past incidents and therefore probably no knowledge either so WHY?
It is a national disgrace.....What is happening to the justice of this, once an international leader in that field, country when those guilty of the affairs which led to this debacle still retain their jobs when in reality it was they who should be sacked in disgrace. All it has done for me is to conclusively prove that the greater majority of 'reporters cannot and should never be trusted. It is their jobs that ought to have gone! The same sentiment applies to all newspapers whose unelected staff  now seem to have far too much influence over the polititians who were elected to act for us by due process of the voting system.
Is it that the BBC is now far too big for its own boots? It is showing all of the symptoms of that and if true it should be savagely reduced in size and authority. Perhaps it is time that the BBC was monitored by an independant body and made responsible for its actions with heavy penalties and mandatory long term, measured in decades,jail for those within it who step over the lines of truth.
Only then might it be trusted again.

[Bionic]

  Forgot to add that the inteview in which he was ripped to bits by that Humphries tool only made me believe it was done to raise the ego of the already over the top self opinionated Humphries and not to investigate any truth or bring facts to the forefront of the matter.
Waste of time watching it cos all it proved was that there are many who will now raise the heads to claim a bit of fame at the expense of others. Fairness will not matter at all...............

[Drewomega]

I agree 100% with Bionic.  You know my thoughts on the BBC in any case, as can be read on some of my previous threads. 

[geoffr70]

Anything that chips away at the leftism of the BBC is a good thing. It should not be funded by taxation either, but left to compete. Anyway, I don't have a tv license because I don't watch or record tv programmes as they're being broadcast.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I thought he resigned over the way the Beeb handled the McAlpine affair?   

[Nickbat]

Found this elsewhere from a poster pretending to be the ex-DG:

It’s come to my attention that I was Director General of the BBC. I was completely unaware of this. Many of you have asked why I never thought to inquire why I was going to work every day to an office named Director General, but you have to understand that as Director General I can’t inquiry about every little detail.

Very droll. 

[Rods2]

IMHO a 9 till 5 jobsworth, only there to get his head deeply buried in the trough and make sure he gets as much as possible.

If I was DG and knew my job would be on the line over the Savile scandal, if it was handled badly. It would be an order that ALL potentially contentious stuff had to be personally approved by me. The clue is in the title Director Gerneral, it is your job to provide leadership, by taking responsibility and making good decisions. The fact he didn't, which was overidingly clear in the Commons committee grilling, means IMHO he has fallen on his own sword.

As far as I'm concerned, I hope the rightly slammed door doesn't hit his butt too hard on the way out. Good riddance, now get somebody who can do the job properly in there.

[Nickbat]

WHAT THE ****?

The BBC Trust has just confirmed that he will get a year's salary (£450,000) as a pay-off!!


 

[Nickbat]

...and that's on top of his £877,000 pension pot.

All adds up to £1.3m.

Where are the lefty banker-bashers now? 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9671132/Threat-to-Lord-Patten-as-BBC-chief-gets-1.3m-pay-off.html

[Kevin Wood]

...and that's on top of his £877,000 pension pot.

Crikey! That pension's not too shabby to reach 2 year's salary in 54 days.

.. and why do you need a payoff if you resign of your own volition? Oh, hang on, perhaps he needed some brown paper envelopes to persuade him? 

[Vamps]

Thats more than I will earn in my working life........