Sure, it was a journalistic gaffe but it was a genuine mistake, for which they have apologised. Rather than defend itself, the BBC is its own harshest (and its own actual, when you consider the motivations of those attacking it) critic. Even if you vehemently feel they have transgressed standards with these two incidents, you'd have to admit the genuine gusto of their Mea Culpa and resulting actions. The Leveson Inquiry is the most significant blow against global media evil that has ever been blown.

Last night I watched a new high-profile documentary on BBC 2 called 'The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler'