The BBC hopes to heal the rifts caused by the scandal surrounding the Hutton report and the suicide of Dr. David Kelley with the appointment of Mark Thompson as the corporation’s new director general. Thompson, who worked at the BBC for 23 years before leaving to head up the UK’s Channel 4 two years ago, succeeds the popular Greg Dyke, who was forced out of the top BBC post following the scandal over journalist Andrew Gilligan’s report claiming that the government had “sexed up” a dossier concerning intelligence information on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.