BBC buck should stop at Lord Patten
LORD PATTEN, the chairman of the BBC Trust, says that the obscenely huge payments made to departing staff (many with jobs to go to) are a matter of "shock and dismay".
You can say that again.
But as chairman shouldn't Patten have known about them?
He was certainly aware of the £450,000 pay-off to the short-lived director-general George Entwistle, who quit in the wake of the Jimmy Savile revelations, since he signed it off himself.
Throughout a bad year in the BBC's history Patten has been doing an extremely good impression of being the man who wasn't there.
Shouldn't the buck finally and at long last now stop at the top?