Friday 23 November 2012



 George Entwistle was the former Director General of the BBC, only lasting 54 days he was given £450,000 to leave the job which is equivalent of a years pay. Entwistle was questioned on whether he knew about the alleged sexual assaults that Jimmy Savile committed and if he did, why was it covered up? why, instead of revealing these crimes did the BBC celebrate Jimmy Savile's life? After watching Entwistle's giving evidence to MP's about the Newsnight investigations I thought that he definitely wasn't prepared although given the fact that he only worked there for a short period of time nevertheless he was in a high status job, working for a massive institution and should've kept on top of things. During the investigation Entwistle was asked how many sexual harassment complaints there were since the 1970's; he replied with "I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that". so he asked what about recently, in the last couple years and again Entwistle didn't know. Moreover to add to that, the former Director General thought it's perfectly normal for up to 5 sexual assaults a year to happen because the BBC is a big institution. So overall, the decision to pay-off George Entwistle was right because he just had too many screw ups and wasn't taking any right actions.
Sally Bercow the wife of the Commons speaker John Bercow disappears off twitter after posting comments on the school girl who allegedly ran away with her maths teacher and also indirectly agreeing that Lord McAlpine is a child abuser. The case with the teenager who allegedly ran ran away with her teacher to France this year, an order has been made under section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933, banning identification of the girl but because Mrs Bercow named the teenager and now she’s being fine for £5,000 for contempt of court after breaching the order which bans revealing the identity of the girl who allegedly ran away with her teacher to France this year. Sally Bercow also tweeted this after Newsnight: “Why is Lord McAlpine trending? *innocent face*” suggesting that he’s a child abuser. But after finding out that it was just a case of mistaken identity, so Lord McAlpine settled for £185,000 from the BBC but now is suing Sally Bercow.
Sally Bercow is the wife of a speaker from the Commons, the way she acted was immature and was not professional at all. She named a girl who's identity was suppose to be kept hidden and now it's going to affect that young girls life, personally being fined £5000 is'nt enough but the embarrassment she faced was.