The furore created as a result of the obscene messages left on Andrew Sachs' 'phone does not want to go away, despite a lukewarm apology by the BBC for the 'unacceptable and offensive' content of calls made to him by Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross during a radio show.
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The BBC has said that they are to investigate how the offensive content came to be aired. Brand has said that it was 'just a joke'. Well, in my opinion, the correct answer if any sort of confidence is to be restored to the licence payers who combine to pay the inflated salaries of these two poor excuses for comic expression, and of the executives who allowed this to be broadcast, whether knowingly or simply because they did not know what they should have done --- i.e. what is being broadcast on the BBC --- then the only acceptable answer is the dismissal of all concerned. At the very least, all should initially be suspended without pay whilst the matter is investigated.
I come down heavily against this sort of thing because it is typical of the gutter-mentality that has damaged the moral fibre of this once-proud nation. I believe that it is up to those people who are aware of what is morally right to make protest at such loutish behaviour. To pass something as offensive as this off as a joke is to insult the intelligence of every decent-minded citizen.
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As a Christian I believe that I have a duty towards others to do all that I can to help make our nation and our world a better place for all to live in, and that means that I will protest against the unacceptable levels of crudity that seem to prevail in our dumbed-down, anaesthetised society.
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