No excuse
The BBC Trust may not want to lose its director general so soon after he took office, but it’s difficult to see how they can avoid it. ‘It wasnae me’ doesn’t cut it any more, not in this case. The McAlpine disgrace isn’t just the biggest British media shambles since the Hitler Diaries, it’s worse than that because of the vilification that has befallen the person innocently accused. He wasn’t named, but so what? In this dangerous age, when social media gossip spreads unchecked like flame through a bed of pine needles, the BBC failed lamentably in its public duty.
In such circumstances the man at the top must go. Not only is George Entwhistle, the BBC’s Director General, he is also, through his office, its editor in chief. He has no honourable wiggle room. He’s toast.
Quintin Jardine's blog 
So now the temporary editor in chief has no editorial experience! Still with his experience at a well known soft drinks company he can continue the tradition of ‘all fizz and no taste’.
I expect him to be very temporary. They’ll have to appoint a heavyweight with serious journalistic experience outside the BBC.
By the way, I was right, but all credit to the man for acting with honour.
I hope the police will soon arrest the man for whom Lord McAlpine was misidentified. As for the internet, it doesn’t look likely we’ll be able to have the gain without the pain.
It would be nice, wouldn’t it, if we could have a technological or social advance that didn’t come with strings attached.