And Captain Ed is not impressed:

Speaking as a former mid-level manager, the best course in honesty is a good and public firing for dishonesty. If an employee lies and perpetrates frauds, immediate termination usually sends a pretty clear message to the rest of the organization. If, as in this case, an entire business unit conspired to act dishonestly, lopping off the first level of management sends an even clearer message.

Believe me, a few people getting their desks cleared out by Security has an impact on the rest of the staff, especially when the people fired are rather high-level managers and executives. Word gets around.

• The Telegraph: BBC Fined over Blue Peter phone-in scandal
• Biased BBC: Today the BBC was forced to issue a grovelling apology
• News Sniffer: 17 versions of "Queen walks out of photo session" [follows the changes in a BBC Online posting, analysis here]
• Daily Mail: BBC in row over doctored TV footage with Gordon Brown
• Sunday Herald: BBC apologises in row over 'mistake' in SNP survey [The 'mistake' was: They made it up.]
• The Telegraph: BBC Staff Suspended After Phone-In Scandal [Scotland Yard is investigating.]
• The Telegraph: BBC to teach its stars honesty [Andrew Neil: "All 16,000 of us are going to be sent to re-education camps..."]

Posted by: Old Grouch in The Press at 15:18:06 GMT | No Comments | Add Comment
Post contains 179 words, total size 3 kb.