BBC Director General George Entwistle Resigned Over covering Sexual Abuse

BBC Director General George Entwistle on 10 November 2012 resigned from the job after the broadcaster put out a program which was denounced by the corporation's chairman as shoddy journalism as a British politician was depicted in child sex abuse.

George Entwistle in a statement asserted that he had decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down as director general after just eight weeks in the job. He also asserted the fact that the director-general is also the editor-in-chief and ultimately responsible for all content.

George Entwistle  was facing  widespread criticism since a rival broadcaster carried charges in October 2012  that a former BBC star, the late Jimmy Savile, was one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders and had sexually abused hundreds of children over four decades.

Thereafter the BBC's flagship news program Newsnight aired a mistaken allegation that an ex-politician sexually abused children. The programme did not identify the politician in the report, but he was widely named on the Internet as former Tory party treasurer Alistair McAlpine.

Tim Davie, who is currently the BBC's director of audio and music, is going to take over as acting director general.