
George Entwistle
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George Entwistle is a British broadcaster and former director general of the BBC, who served a brief and tumultuous term marked by controversy, including the fallout from a Newsnight report that wrongly implicated Lord McAlpine in a child abuse scandal. Entwistle resigned in 2012 after just 54 days in the role, making him one of the shortest-serving directors general in BBC history.
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George Entwistle resigned as director general of the BBC after a report falsely implicated a politician in a scandal.
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