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BBC chief quits after "shoddy journalism" failures

BBC director general George Entwistle resigned on Saturday, just two months into the job, after the state-funded broadcaster put out a programme denounced by its chairman as shoddy journalism.

The BBC, reeling from revelations that a former star presenter was a paedophile, brought further problems on its head when a flagship news programme, Newsnight, aired a mistaken allegation that a former top politician sexually abused children.

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