BBC Director General George Entwistle resigned Saturday after the network wrongly implicated a 90-year-old politician in a child intercourse-abuse scandal. NBC's Michelle Kosinski reports.By Keir Simmons, NBC NewsThe Director General of the British Broadcasting Corporation, George Entwistle, resigned Saturday after only 54 days in the role - the latest to be caught in the wake of a child intercourse-abuse scandal that has thrown the 90-year-old publicly-funded behemoth and other U.K. institutions into deepening turmoil.
The scandal, which began with allegations against a single former BBC employee, has since engulfed hospitals, children’s homes, even the police.
It also poses questions for Mark Thompson, Entwistle's immediate predecessor, who on Monday becomes chief executive (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/world/europe/mark-thompson-says-he-did-not-block-savile-program.html?_r=0) of The New York Times.
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Nemesis always catches up.