When an apology is not enough..........

The BBC have apologised to Andrew Sachs for the appalling and disgusting comments left by Brand and Ross on his voicemail.

www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7692911.stm

Mr Sachs, being the gentleman he is, has made no comments about the matter. Good on him for not sinking to the level of the two perpetrators of this childish and pathetic act. Apparently the two culprits have apologised in person and the BBC have themselves been rightly shamed into red-faced guilt.

Considering these two clowns, and I use the term loosely, earn probably more than most people at the BBC, money which comes from the license payer, perhaps the powers that be should impose a fine, rather like the football authority impose on players who have brought the game into disrepute. The money could go to a charity, selected by the victim. After all from what I can gather the remarks may well have been slanderous and therefore worthy of a defamation of character court action. It seems OFFCOM are launching their own investigation into the matter, but I bet the cost wont be paid by Brand & Ross.

To my mind though the best thing would be for the BBC to sack both Brand and Ross, save the license payer a vast amount of money and rid the airwaves of these two pathetic and vile creatures, who think that insulting a 78 year old man is funny. I wonder how they, or their offspring, would feel if someone left a message for them in the same vein?

If you made a similar phone call in your course of employment, I doubt you would still be employed.

The BBC have let standards slip over the years, and on this occasion, just a little bit too far.