Raw: BBC Director General Resigns Amid Child Sex Abuse Scandal

November 10, 2012 from Telegraph.co.uk

George Entwistle resigned as director general of the BBC after only two months in charge, following an investigative report that wrongly implicated a politician of child sex abuse. The turmoil comes hot on the heels of another scandal in which a former BBC star was accused of being a prolific sex offender.

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