Greg Dyke resigns as BBC Director General

A tragedy for the BBC and for free speech in this country. Blair and his cronies have lost my vote forever

Its a little more serious than 'just TV'

The problem is that facism and state control is winning. ITN is not independant, - in a few months that will be American owned, Sky is American Murdoch controlled there isn't much else. Editorial independance of the BBC is paramount. Blairs state machine has bulldozed through even more free speech. Very dangerous.

Indeed, he led the most interesting era for the BBC, really putting the beeb on the map, though I knew he was next after Gavin going last night. Could Richard Sambrook be next? I hope not. The Hutton report was very one biased, well-Lord Hutton was appointed by the government. I hope this is the last we hear of this the government have pushed to far and not behaved in a dignified way. I hope they come under fire from the press.

Whitewash. Everything Blair does, he seems to get away with. He has presided over one of the most corrupt governments in recent history, and likewise he will never get a vote from me again. I have no idea how Hutton came to his findings, the establishment wins again. I totally agree with what Rod Liddle has been saying, the Hutton Report is a disgrace, Hutton is out of touch with the real world, and based on all the evidence at the Inquiry, how the hell he could not criticise the government one little bit is astounding.

Yep, they are. They came back from an ad break into that statement by the acting DG and chairman a few minutes ago. They just had Stuart Purvis on, introduced as formally from "Independent Television News". They did one other story about 2.20pm but directly went back to it after.

This uni PC doesn't have Real Player on so I can't watch News 24 - not that I'm complaining, it's nice watching the World feed!

The BBCi team are quick to move their ex-boss from being in the present tense to the past tense. Surprising how fast they updated those pages.

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LBC News 1152 is reporting a walkout by 100 staff at TV Centre

I'm between screens at the moment (PC and telly). Im sure i heard a few minutes ago that a few people have walked out of Broadcasting House.

I know this doesnt really help, it wont get him back again. But it shows that BBC employees did value him.

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Yep, about 50 people outside BBC HQ according to ITVNC.

ITV News are currently speaking to an employee of 17 Years outside Broadcasting House and there are alot of people waiting outside the building.

Though for some reason earlier John Stapleton was on the phone to Sky News.

EDIT: He is now in the ITV NC studio with Andrew Harvery, talking about TV-am a bit.

Yep. It is unbelievable how biased Hutton's report was, and it really annoys me that the Bliar has gotten away with everything. Sad day for the BBC to lose Greg Dyke.

i'm sorry but are you lot living in the real world?

The BBC broadcast an inaccurate report, which they had to admit eventually whilst testifying at the Inquiry, but for weeks they refused even to investigate Gilligan's initial comments although they told the government that their complaint had been fully investigated. This was a management decision and it's plain to see that if they had investigated Gilligan's notes they would have had to issue an apology. Sorry but that smacks of bad management and so Dyke had no option but to go.

Imagine if you as an individual had an inaccurate report broadcast about you and the BBC refused even to investigate, never mind apologise?

A bit OT, but after leaving simulcast with BBC2, News24 has just gone into a 45 second TOTH countdown.

And im pleased to see the Dyke headline on the opening titles - much better than those **** Hutton titles.