I don't like the word unprecedented. But I've used it twice in less than 24 hours.
The first time was on Sunday night, after the resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness. That, in fact, might have involved a bit of overreach.
After all, this has happened before at the BBC. Back in 2004, two senior figures departed - admittedly not on the same day, but on subsequent days.
The then BBC chairman, Gavyn Davies, and the director general, Greg Dyke, resigned in light of the Hutton report.
That was the inquiry into the death of government scientist Dr David Kelly which found that the BBC's reporting on the Iraq "sexed-up dossier" was flawed.
