BBC DG dies who was brought down over Martin McGuinness and ” the oxygen of publicity”
The Jimmy Savile affair and Iraq and the suicide of Dr David Kelly were two BBC editorial crises which cost BBC directors general their jobs. But the first in the sequence came in 1987 when DG Alasdair Milne was abruptly sacked two years after Real Lives: On the Edge of the Union, the documentary which featured Martin McGuinness as an ordinary person without horns, while at the same time being the IRA leader in Derry. The DG Alasdair Milne died yesterday. …