i like this comment from one of the gruniad readers:
"Dear BBC,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about your entirely incorrect and reactive decision to suspend two of your employees today. Its the worst decision the BBC has made since it decided to bring back Dr Who rather than the Tripods, and the very public manner in which you chose to announce the disciplinary measures has only made matters worse ? your director generals emphatic capitulation in his statement today resembled a platoon of French soldiers with orders to surrender.
Lets be honest, the comments made by Ross and Brand were not particularly funny, but nor were they even as remotely offensive as 98.9% of the British population appears to be claiming they were. Sachs clearly isnt particularly fussed, and his granddaughters first instinct was to seek out Max ?Ill take 15% Clifford and The Sun newspaper, which tells you all you need to know about how offended she was, i.e. not even slightly.
The absolute least I expect for my £135 (or whatever it is per year) is for the BBC to show a little backbone when facing a pitchfork-wielding mob of parochial rabble-rousers stirred by the asinine whining of the tabloid press and the rabid hysteria of the Daily Mail, a paper I wouldnt even wipe my arse with. Instead, I discover the BBC is in fact an organisation with the structural integrity of a wet paper bag; your abject acquiescence is almost as shameful as your decision not to re-commission Kickstart.
I mean, just look at it: while our Bullingdon Club mentalist of a shadow chancellor remains embroiled in scandal and the most significant American election since the end of the Second World War looms a mere six days away, your main news page is now dominated by breaking news updates on whether the gothic p0rn actress granddaughter of a moderately famous actor deems Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross worthy of employment with the Corporation. For Christs sake, shes on Bebo. Bebo! Arent people on Bebo normally behind bars or living under an ASBO? Get some balls.
Of course Russell Brand is an idiot - and even more irritating than Fearne Cotton - and Jonathan Ross pay packet is quite simply obscene (and you know it) but I would have hoped than the BBC was strong enough to resist succumbing to the pathetic faux-outrage witnessed over the last 48 hours by 18,000+ moronic timewasters, all of whom, frankly, need marching into the nearest mincing machine.
Kind regards
p.s ? If you want to suspend/immediately sack George Lamb, please do feel free. He actually DOES offend me. Shabba! "