'George has honourably offered his resignation because of the unacceptably shoddy journalism' THE director general of the BBC, George Entwistle, resigned last night in the wake of the Newsnight report which wrongly implicated a former senior Conservative politician in child sex abuse allegations. THE director general of the BBC, George Entwistle, resigned last night in the wake of the Newsnight report which wrongly implicated a former senior Conservative politician in child sex abuse allegations. Entwistle -- who had been director general for less than two months -- said he had decided that "the honourable thing to do" was to step down. It follows a torrid week for the BBC which has been mired in crisis since the Jimmy Savile scandal first erupted. His resignation came less than 24 hours after Entwistle gave an excruciating performance on Radio 4's Today programme when he admitted he was completely unaware of the Newsnight report that wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse allegations until the day following its broadcast. Despite a tweet before the Newsnight broadcast that suggested the programme was going to identify a senior political figure attracting widespread interest, the former director general said he only found out about the film after it had been broadcast. The Newsnight programme went out on Friday, November 2, but Entwistle said he was "out" when it was broadcast. Reading a prepared statement outside New Broadcasting House, shortly after 9pm last night, Entwistle said the "wholly exceptional" events of the last