I've spent the last few weeks vociferously defending the BBC to all who would hear and pointing out that the failings they are being accused of and ripping themselves to shreds over in a downward spiral of defiantly proper behaviour, are barely significant in the world of modern media.

The bastards are clever. They've found the BBC's achilles heel. It showed the tabloids for what they are, it even managed to blow The News of the World out of the water. In a world where information is the most valuable commodity, a large, well-established and well-loved publicly-funded organisation which is designed to put integrity and honesty above all else is the only thing standing in the way of the majority of our mainstream information being corrupt