BBC faces most serious crisis in decades, reputation damaged

LONDON, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The BBC faces its most serious crisis for decades following a series of high-profile and embarrassing errors that have led to the resignation of its highest ranking journalists and sinking of its reputation.

The seriousness of the crisis which has engulfed the BBC in just over a month was underlined over the weekend, when its chief journalist, the director general George Entwistle resigned.

Entwistle's resignation, which came just eight weeks after he took over the post, was driven by the revelation that journalists on the BBC's flagship daily news program had provided enough innuendo to flesh out false allegations on social media that a leading former politician was a pedophile.

The journalists on the weekday Newsnight program had claimed that a former leading politician had abused a boy in a children's care home in the 1980s.

Social media reports labeled that man as former treasurer of the Conservative Party, Lord McAlpine, a close supporter of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her term in office.

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