Greg Dyke resigns as BBC Director General

I'm no anti-american, but after seeing that knob on Fox News, I'm happy to be.

Because President Bush and American patriotism are the key to the whole world, and any possible criticism of them (even if indirect) is a huge attack on the world which must be met with strong words from quality journalists who absolutley aren't flag waving lunatics. Didn't you know that?

Sorry, but weren't we all supposed to be 'pro-Iraqi'? I didn't think it was America v Iraq, I thought it was America v Saddam. But of course, the Americans are too stupid to make these distinctions.

Never trust fox news. This news channel is completely sensationalist; I may say it is a televised-americanised version of the sun IMHO. There is a book that describes how the journalists in fox newsroom have to write what their bosses want; in other words, they cannot talk bad against their bosses ,or those political parties they support. Therefore, the motto fair and balance is just a dirty falacy.BTW, the name of the book is fair and balance, and I have to say the author of this book was sued because the title of his book is copyrighted.

In the same way that there is (to them) absolutely no distinction between being 'anti-Bush' and 'anti-American'.

Dear... god. I can't remember watching anything so blatantly unaware of itself. Do those little badges make the wearer suddenly ignorant to what's immediately around them?



And given the *extraordinary* things I heard in his speech last week, I find this to be a very frightening thing indeed.

I wouldn't mind an enquiry into that Fox report.

I am trying to get rid of Fox "Entertainment" News, from my EPG!!
Interesting to find that SkyNews sometimes uses Fox News reports

I think we should all try and forget that fox 'news' report and get back to the subject that the Governments determination to get their pound of flesh leaves the BBC somewhat rudderless in a time when they clearly need strong leadership and a clear direction.

So what happens now?

According to Nick Robinson, ITV News Political Editor, speaking on the ITV Evening News, Greg Dyke didn't resign, but was sacked by the governors. Robinson claimed that Dyke wanted to stay, but the governors voted by a majority of 2 to 1 to sack him. If this is true, it must make a strike by staff in support of Dyke more likely.

Think it's a shame Greg Dyke had to go, I don't think he should have done, but I guess that as things were falling, he had no choice.

If we must drag this issue into political conspiracies (and I don't believe there is one, certainly not to the extent some people are making out), those moaning about Blair shouldn't think for a moment that the Tories would look after the BBC - Howard would have it privatised in an instant. Dyke is of New Labour persuasions. With regards to playing politics, it would not be in Blair's interest to get rid of him, even if there was a squabble over an apology, which is what it all boils down to. The Tories hated the fact that Dyke got in as DG because of his connections with Blair. Funny how the acting chairman is a Tory...but that could all be coincidence, couldn't it? Surely there couldn't be internal politics at play at this time of crisis...?

My head is beginning to spin from all of this. The Hutton Inquiry, the far bigger question of whether or not we should have gone to war and whether there are WMDs in Iraq - which I believe were the things being investigated in the first place, the real issue at the end of the day, and seems to have quietly disappeared under the whole Kelly affair...

Erm, our purse you mean i.e. we, the licence payer.

Blair's fly-by-night government have no right to ruin the ethos of investigative journalism nor have they a right to run the BBC into the ground. They won't be here in a couple of years... the BBC will as will the rest of the press, however I fear that the freedom of our press may be permanently damaged as they will constantly fear reprisals from unelected power crazed spin doctors like Alistair Campbell and out of touch judgements from a law lord without a grasp of modern journalism.

A very sad day indeed. Slimy Blair gets off unscathed, the Beeb loses one of it's most creative and successful DGs.