Snapshot: BBC director-general flaps like a helpless fish Balding, bespectacled, pink and earnestly blinking, George Entwistle doesn't look like a man who wields tremendous power. If anything, he looks like a postman: a postman who has lost his way, or lost his postbag, or perhaps even lost his van. At any rate, not a man who on first glance you would take to be the director-general of a vast and world-renowned media organisation. The MPs who questioned him today, about the BBC's actions over the Jimmy Savile scandal, certainly didn't treat him with cap-doffing reverence. They were openly scornful, more and more so as it became clear that Mr Entwistle, by his own account, had known very little about the saga of the dropped Newsnight investigation into Savile. It seems he'd also made very little effort to find out more. He had no recollection of this, no knowledge of that. Indeed he hadn't wanted to ask too much about the Newsnight investigation because, as a former Newsnight man himself, he was worried that it might look as if he was showing "undue interest." "It seems that your determination not to show an "undue interest" applies to everything at the BBC," snorted Philip Davies (Con). "You need to get a grip of the facts," snapped Ben Bradshaw (Lab). "An extraordinary lack of curiosity," said John Whittingdale (Con). "You sound a bit like James Murdoch," said Damian Collins (Con). They could write it as an epitaph on his headstone. He Didn't Know. Watching the interrogation was an uncomfortable experience. Mr Entwistle spent it flapping helplessly, like a fish on a quayside. It's often said that the worst job in the world - on account of the fact that you can only fail at it, and that you'll be pilloried for doing so - is England football manager. On this evidence it's actually the second worst.