Today

Listening to the radio this morning on the way into work, The Today program on Radio4, it was all trivial. Still navel gazing about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand.

They had some MP in Roger Wittington or something, who said "We need to find out how this happened...".

No we don't we just need to sack the presenters, it was them who made the poor judgement call. And if later an investigation finds that their editor/producer had a judgement lapse too, then sack them. Or is it now impossible to get fired from the BBC?

I think the next commentator they had on said something regarding Russell Brande "If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys" Which kind of misrepresents Russell Brande. He gets paid a fucking fortune to act like a monkey, not peanuts. If you paid him peanuts, he wouldn't work for the BBC. In fact if you paid someone peanuts they'd probably do a more professional job for fear of losing their job.

There were a few mentions of Ofcom fining the BBC, like they did over the telephone quiz thing. The problem with this is that the fine just comes out of lisense fee payers money, and doesn't hurt the BBC.

On the other hand, sacking Jonathan Ross and Russell Brande would save the lisencefee payers several hundred thousand pounds.

Can we no do that?