PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS CONVERTED 4:3 MATERIAL<br/> <br />Just two months into the job and the head of the BBC has quit over a controversial programme about child sex abuse.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: GEORGE ENTWISTLE, BBC DIRECTOR GENERAL, SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"In the light of the fact that the director general is also the editor-in-chief and ultimately responsible for all content; and in the light of the unacceptable journalistic standards of the Newsnight film broadcast on Friday 2nd November, I have decided that the honourable thing to do is to step down from the post of director general."<br/> <br />George Entwistle faced criticism after a BBC programme aired a mistaken allegation.<br/> <br />Newsnight falsely implicated a former senior politician in child abuse and the broadcaster was forced to apologise.<br/> <br />The BBC was already facing revelations that its former star Jimmy Savile was a sex offender.<br/> <br />SOUNDBITE: GEORGE ENTWISTLE, BBC DIRECTOR GENERAL, SAYING (English):<br/> <br />"The wholly exceptional events of the past few weeks have led me to conclude that the BBC should appoint a new leader."<br/> <br />Entwistle has admitted he didn't know about the Newsnight programme before it was aired.
