"It remains to be seen when – or even if – he will return to the programme after his statement, unprecedented for a serving BBC presenter, issued through his agent, Capel Land, late on Saturday night.
"George Entwistle's departure is a great shame. He has been brought low by cowards and incompetents," said Paxman.
"The real problem here is the BBC's decision, in the wake of the Hutton inquiry, to play safe by appointing biddable people.
"They then compounded the problem by enforcing a series of cuts on programme budgets, while bloating the management. That is how you arrive at the current mess on Newsnight. I very much doubt the problem is unique to that programme. I had hoped that George might stay to sort this out. It is a great pity that a talented man has been sacrificed while time-servers prosper. I shall not be issuing any further statements or doing any interviews.""
The old bully and coward has become a potential hero. Paxman spoke out to remind us that the real crisis for the BBC came with its demolition by Blair and Hutton.
Greg Dyke gave it independence from the Government status quo. Blair removed him and replaced him with cowards and incompetents.
They could not even make a stand against Jimmy Saville.
I am very much afraid that the enemies of freedom integrity and democracy have used poor Mr Meesham as a stick to make sure the BBC does not dare to dig out the abusers in high places.
They did not dare see where things were going with Saville.
Now they will dare even less to seek the rapists in high places.
What we need is an unstoppable internet campaign to bring the focus back to the abusers of power and away from covering up for cowards and incompetents.
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