Calls for BBC overhaul after chief quits in abuse row
- Published: 11 Nov 2012 at 18.47
- Online news: World
Pressure mounted on Chris Patten, chairman of the BBC's governing board, on Monday after the world's largest broadcaster was plunged into crisis following the resignation of its chief executive in a sex abuse row.
Chairman of the BBC Trust Lord Chris Patten arrives to speak to journalists outside New Broadcasting House in central London on November 11. Pressure mounted on Patten on Monday after the world's largest broadcaster was plunged into crisis following the resignation of its chief executive in a sex abuse row.
The broadcaster's Director-general George Entwistle quit late Saturday, just 54 days into the job, after the flagship BBC programme Newsnight admitted it had wrongly implicated a politician in abuse at a Welsh children's home.
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