BBC Issue apology over Ross/Brand 'Prank'
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Don't tell me, you sit next to HR managers that deal with 20 broadcasting code of practice violations per day and you are an expert on the subject.
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But the BBC chose to broadcast it and Mr. Sachs chose to allow them to do so. 
So why were Ross and Brand dragged through the dirt and have had to pay the highest price for this mistake?
So why were Ross and Brand dragged through the dirt and have had to pay the highest price for this mistake?
But the BBC chose to broadcast it and Mr. Sachs chose to allow them to do so.
Hence why the controller of radio 2 resigned.
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He resigned because he was given permission to air something?
He is a She and they don't need permission.She controlled the output of Radio 2 and 6 music.
Letter from Radio 2 Controller to Director General of the BBC
Dear Mark,
The last week has been a painful one for the BBC and particularly for BBC Radio 2.
It is with enormous regret that I have decided to resign as controller of BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music and of Popular Music.
This is my decision alone.
Over the 23 years of my career at the BBC I have enjoyed a deep love and respect for both the audience and the BBC.
The events of the last two weeks happened on my watch. I believe it is right that I take responsibility for what has happened.
It is a matter of the greatest possible sadness to me that a programme on my network has been the cause of such a controversy.
I would like to take this opportunity to offer my personal apology to Andrew Sachs and his family and to the audience for what has happened.
It has been a huge privilege to have been entrusted with the leadership of the UK's most popular radio station, which is so intensely loved by the audience.
I have also had the tremendous pleasure of launching BBC 6 Music and more recently of leading popular music output across the BBC.
I know I leave BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music in the hands of a dedicated and passionate team of incredibly talented presenters and production staff.
I am enormously proud of what we have achieved together.
Yours ever,
Lesley Douglas
Some of us use our brains to decide whether something is wrong (and what response, if any, is needed). We don't need a 'code' to make our minds up.
But the BBC chose to broadcast it and Mr. Sachs chose to allow them to do so.
So why were Ross and Brand dragged through the dirt and have had to pay the highest price for this mistake?
Becuase people like easyrider seem to want ross and brand to be lynched
Becuase people like easyrider seem to want ross and brand to be lynched
Don't bring in emotion to your failed arguement.
I don't care at all what happens to Ross or Brand.
I care about quality broadcasting.
Why would anyone care what happens to Ross? He's a multi millionaire with productions comnpanies and a wealth of experience in Broadcasting.
He will be ok you know
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Don't bring in emotion to your failed arguement.
I don't care at all what happens to Ross or Brand.
I care about quality broadcasting.
Why would anyone care what happens to Ross? He's a multi millionaire with productions comnpanies and a wealth of experience in Broadcasting.
He will be ok you know
Haha! Your profile location is so true.
Right, first of all I can't even decipher what you're trying to say there. A green red light?
And no I don't need the highway code to tell me how to drive safely, I use common sense. <That was me guessing what you meant by your post. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Umm... And who said it was?
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How do we know this? This is just taken at face value.
Who is to say that ridding the world of ALL laws wouldn't make it an easier place to live?
I could, for instance, then eat anyone I dislike, rather than the process currently in place were you wait till they make a mistake, then complain until they are sacked or forced to quit.
Don't tell me, you sit next to HR managers that deal with 20 broadcasting code of practice violations per day and you are an expert on the subject.
Still missing the point, that you don't have to be anything on the subject to point out that the code of practice has been breached, it doesn't require it.
Are you saying that if you were the head of the BBC you'd personally have to be an expert to accept that they'd maybe just maybe breached the standards
I also earlier stated I am no expert, your simply being mocking for mockings sake.
As for HR blah blah, your also exaggerating. Your seemingly trying to make out that by me mentioning HR that I'm stupid to think they are the be all and end all, in such meetings there are senior HR, sometime union reps and company legal, I've sat in many such meetings so I've seen frist hand how they are approached, the content etc, but no obviously I'm no expert
First of all the highway code isn't law and there is no obligation to follow any of its rules.
Second, I don't need the Offences Against the Person Act to prevent me from kicking someone's head in. I choose not to do that because it's wrong morally.
We need rules in society because simpletons don't have this moral code. We don't need a rule or code to give an opinion on this topic.
Arguably if you need rules and codes to enforce moral behaviour you aren't part of a civilised society.
Oh and within the last 100 years it was illegal to participate in homosexual acts. Would you have stood by that law too? Rules/laws/codes can be wrong as well.