• Chairman blames 'terrible screw-up' on ex-director generals
• 'More senior leaders than China' under note ThompsonLord Patten,the BBC Trust chairman, has painted a vivid picture of the chaos that engulfed the corporation's senior management during last autumn's Jimmy Savile crisis, or saying there was an impression of "frantic faffing approximately" around former director general George Entwistle.
During his appearance before the BBC internal inquiry on the Savile scandal,Patten was also asked if he was aware that the corporation's senior management planned to manufacture Newsnight editor Peter Rippon "the fall guy" for the crisis. Patten said he not aware of this.
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Source: theguardian.com