BBC

The BBC sinks further into the gutter by the hour. Earlier this week it was announced they had been fined £50,000 for rigging a children's phone-in show. As a letter to the press pointed out no-one got sacked and the fine comes out of licence money. The great British Public has to pay for the sins of this wretched corporation. The latest scandal was a film of a Year with the Queen. One episode dealt with a photo shoot by Annie Leibowitz. A trailer was produced to market the film. Peter Fincham, Controller of BBC, had the trailer shown to press and sure enough the next day the UK papers had images/stories of the Queen stomping out of the session in high dudgeon after Annie had suggested she remove her crown. Except the trailer was in the wrong sequence. Queen complaining about heavy, hot, ceremonial dress came before she met Annie. Of course Peter doesn't regard it as a resigning matter — why should he when he's on such a cushy number? The BBC just don't get it: nobody trusts them as impartial purveyors of truth any more.