The chairman has failed. Now he must go too George Entwistle should not be the only one losing his job. Though I have never met him, many testify that he is a decent man, and he was a popular programme editor in the tight circles in which he moved. But recent events have shown that the appointment of Entwistle as director-general was a massive error of judgment -- and the man who appointed him is Lord Patten, the Chairman of the BBC Trust. He should also be shown the door. At this crucial stage in the BBC's history, the Corporation needed a gifted and visionary outsider as director-general, someone who owed no one in the old guard favours. Part of the system: Lord Patten should have appointed an outsider as Director General, instead he chose George Entwistle Instead, Patten gave us George Entwistle, who was part of the existing, and to my mind failing, system. I worked as a presenter at the BBC for 20 years and as chairman of BBC Question Time for five years. And I have long been convinced that anyone who is a product of what passes for BBC management -- who rises through its Byzantine structures and owes that rise principally to surviving the system rather than editorial excellence -- cannot be assumed to have the qualifications that the job of director-general demands. Chris Patten's job as chairman of the BBC Trust is to safeguard the interests of the licence fee payers, to set the