BBC Issue apology over Ross/Brand 'Prank'

Sach's has this afternoon confirmed he no longer wants to take further action according to the BBC website, and on the face of it Ofcom are currently investigating internally at the mo, so they prob won't get involved now

Sachs is handling this very well.
 
Its a Big Deal to 18,000 people who complaining hence the investigation.

I thought they only got 2 complaints over the broadcast (out of 400k listeners). The other complaints I believe were at least a week after the broadcast when everyone jumped on the bandwagon of mass hysteria.
 
I thought they only got 2 complaints over the broadcast (out of 400k listeners). The other complaints I believe were at least a week after the broadcast when everyone jumped on the bandwagon of mass hysteria.

Yes that's exactly what happened, there were 2 people who complained. The other 17,998 people only heard about it in the Sunday Mail and other sensationalist articles in other media over a week later.
 
I thought they only got 2 complaints over the broadcast (out of 400k listeners). The other complaints I believe were at least a week after the broadcast when everyone jumped on the bandwagon of mass hysteria.

Exactly.

Its a Big Deal to 18,000 people who complaining hence the investigation.

18,000 people did not complain about about the breach of a telephone usage law.
 
I thought they only got 2 complaints over the broadcast (out of 400k listeners). The other complaints I believe were at least a week after the broadcast when everyone jumped on the bandwagon of mass hysteria.

People are getting hysterical over two mid range comedians getting suspended.
 
This Andrew Sachs is a bit of a nobody isn't he? Why were they interviewing him in the first place? I actually found the whole thing hilarious, and this backlash even more so. And, even funnier than all that is this thread.
 
It's not that I don't get it. I simply don't care that they broke some rule. I'm sure it gets breached every day. Big deal.

Yes but were not talking about joe public1 doing this to joe public2 in isolation and it going unnoticed, were talking about two very well known people doing this in a high profile scenario whilst working for the BBC

A similar analogy would be you sending a rude joke or picture of a hot chick to a mate using hotmail account, if you sent the same email from a works email address to another member of staff then you have to accept you could get sacked for misuse, youd have to take the responsibility for making that choice, its the same with Brand and Ross
 
Yes that's exactly what happened, there were 2 people who complained. The other 17,998 people only heard about it in the Sunday Mail and other sensationalist articles in other media over a week later.

They "done" wrong, license payers have a right to complain don't they.
 
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