Jimmy Savile: BBC's handling of scandal was 'disastrous', says Greg Dyke Asked whether Mr Entwistle should resign, Mr Dyke said: "He and Patten will have to work out whether he's so damaged that actually he can't recover." The former director-general described the official explanation that the Newsnight report was axed for "editorial reasons" as "very weak" and said the BBC should have explained its decision to the public. Peter Rippon was forced to step aside as Newsnight editor last week after the BBC said there were "errors" in a blog he wrote for the Corporations's website about why he halted the Savile investigation. Mr Dyke said he would have handled the story differently if he had been editing the programme. He told the Evening Standard: "I would've said: "Make sure it's right. Do you really think we've got the evidence? And if they hadn't got enough, I would've said, "Go away and get more." Instead the editor pulled it. He lost his nerve. The former director-general also said that the Corporation's internal inquiry into Savile's decades of abuse would have to look at how "someone who is a celebrity created by the BBC managed to use that celebrity to fool everybody." He added: "Jimmy Savile is a BBC creation, so they can't absolve themselves of blame. BBC1 created this animal, really. I mean, they invented Jim'll Fix It, but if they'd called it something else it would've been fine. It was just a very good show - it didn't need Jimmy Savile.