It may look good if more senior people resign, but the only effect it will have will be to make the people who take their place more timid. If it happens, it will be a cop-out. What is required is a change in the way News and Current Affairs, and perhaps other parts of the BBC, are controlled. George Entwistle’s accounts of why he didn’t know what was going on were horribly embarrassing, but the fact is that the director-general – any director-general – is no more aware of the day-to-day routines of broadcasting than the prime minister is of the way the civil service runs.