BBC Director General Resigns amid Newsnight Scandal

The BBC's director general, George Entwistle, has resigned in the aftermath of a Newsnight broadcast implicating leading 1980s Tory politician. Lord McAlpine in child abuse.

Entwistle has said that as the man "ultimately responsible for all content, and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards" he would quit.

He has admitted Newsnight's report, which led to McAlpine being wrongly implicated, should not have been aired, BBC informs.

The broadcast covered cases of child abuse at north Wales care home.

In his statement,Entwistle said: "In the light of the fact that the director general is also the editor-in-chief and ultimately responsible for all content, and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2 November, I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down from the post of director general."

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