The veteran Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman has said that BBC director-general George Entwistle was “brought low by cowards and incompetents”.
In a ferocious attack on the BBC’s managers, he said that the corporation, scared by the Hutton Inquiry, had appointed “biddable people”, cutting programme budgets and “bloating the management”.
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