The Slightly Pompous Jeremy Vine
Unless you have been living on another planet, you can’t have escaped the furore surrounding Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand. Yes, I think they were wrong but what a feeding frenzy over what wasn’t really that big a deal and should have not been aired by the producers. Radio 2 presenters have been giving their reaction and a devastated looking Jeremy Vine says he says he will be interested to see how Jonathan Ross can come back from this - with his tone inferring that he shoudn’t - and saying he hopes Ross has apologised to the now ex-controller on whose watch this happened.
An edgy comedian pushing the limits sometimes needs to be reined in but I don’t think that in itself damages the BBC’s credibility. What does do enormous damage to the BBC’s credibility is when serious programming - such as the Election night coverage - reduced to an absolute joke by Jeremy Vine and the computer graphics department with cringemaking displays that embarrass us all. So on the topic of apologising, Mr Vine, how about you say sorry for making the once might Beeb look absurd with your awful election night performance?
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