The BBC must undergo a radical overhaul in the wake of "shoddy" journalism which led to the resignation of its chief or its future will be in doubt, the head of the state-funded broadcaster's governing body said on Sunday.
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"If you're saying, does the BBC need a thorough structural radical overhaul, then absolutely it does and that is what we will have to do," Mr Patten, a one-time senior figure in British prime minister David Cameron's Conservative Party and the last British governor of Hong Kong, told BBC TV.
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Mr Entwistle was condemned for the BBC's slow response to the Savile furore and then lambasted after it emerged that Newsnight had axed a planned expose into Savile shortly after his death and that the broadcaster had gone ahead with tributes instead.
His appearance before a parliamentary committee provoked mockery, with one lawmaker saying he had shown a "lamentable lack of knowledge" of what was going on at his own organisation.
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The knives were out for the director general on Friday after the BBC apologised for the mistaken allegation that an ex-politician, later identified on the Internet as a close ally of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, had abused children, and had not asked him for a comment before broadcast.
The last straw came when Mr Entwistle was forced to admit on BBC radio that he had not been told about the Newsnight report before it aired nor known - or asked - who the alleged abuser was until the name appeared in social media.
Calm down, and you'll see how trivial in reality it all is, unless people get all over excited about it (like you).![[TW]Fox](/data/man-of-honor/2009.png){kind=avatar}
