Is anyone listening to George Entwistle getting his arse roasted in front of the select committe

[Pagwatch]

10 minutes in and he has been described as 'lamentable'

[Hullygully]

No! Will have to catch up later. Bunch of raving tosspots.

[Mumfun]

He is not on the ball at all. Doesnt have a clue how many complaints made in any year on sexual harrassment in his organisation. MPs are asking the questions I would thanks goodness!

Think his days are numbered!

[Pagwatch]

He is sounding adrift. Totally.

[Mumfun]

Only good points for me so far -at least Meirion Jones and Liz McKean werent totally silenced -they would have been in some organisations

And also we plebs :)can see the Select Committee grilling - some empowerment of the people

What decent journalist will ever work for Peter Rippon ever again?

It is painful hearing him being grilled as the delays, the telling the wrong story for so long and not letting the programme going ahead are so obviously shockingly bad

[Pagwatch]

He is quite happily blaming Peter Rippon while the attention is on the blog.

[difficultpickle]

I'm watching. He is squirming in his seat.

[difficultpickle]

There is more to this than Rippon's judgment. He is being made to be a scapegoat imvho.

[Pagwatch]

The idea that they will move on soon to the subject of the 'tributes' won't help him relax. It is just impossible to justify 4 tribute programmes about a 'star' he had been warned Newsnight had serious issues with.
Newsnight were not going to be investigating something trivial.

[headfairy]

Good, can't stand the man and can't wait to see the back if him. I didn't think it was possible to have someone worse than Mark Thompson as DG but GE is a nasty man.

[difficultpickle]

But the tributes were broadcast under Thompson's watch. Why isn't he being grilled?

[headfairy]

But GE was director of Vision so he commissioned them.

[VeritableSmorgasbord]

'The BBC' i.e. him (for the moment) must be absolutely shitting themselves. (As must the other organisations which showed compliance with JS's goals.)
Years and years of cognitive dissonance must be very hard to communicate.

[difficultpickle]

Thanks for the clarification head fairy. It makes GE's position untenable, surely?

[headfairy]

I do hope do bisjo

[difficultpickle]

If it wasn't so serious it is actually quite funny to watch (day off and I really should be doing other things). He is not coming out of this at all well.

[Pagwatch]

I did enjoy

'so now we have alerted you to that question are you going to go away and ask it..... Can we help you by asking some more questions that you can go away and ask'

[difficultpickle]

I enjoye that bit too.

I can't see how GE can continue after this. He seems completely inadequate and ill prepared.

[MrsSalvoMontalbano]

nothing to add to the debate - I just love this thread title

[Pagwatch]

I had to go out at the end but it was strangely compelling. Like watching a worm on a hook.

[headfairy]

Either he's lying or incompetent, neither is particularly desirable in a DG.

[Pagwatch]

That really is it isn't it Headfairy.

Lying or incompetent.

[MamaMary]

Didn't like how he came across on Panorama. Haven't seen the MP grilling. He didn't seem trustworthy to me.

[MamaMary]

Telegraph wrote: ' "Watching the interrogation was an uncomfortable experience. Mr Entwistle spent it flapping helplessly, like a fish on a dock.'

[DrinkFecksArseyGhosts]

GE is a bot of a twat tbh. Have peek at his Twitter account. I haven't looked recently and it has nothing to do with tge current case but he's just a knob. IMHO.

[DrinkFecksArseyGhosts]

Incompetent and the least PC person in the history of the world written by Frankie Boyle.