[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Aint_mad_atcha
Long way to go in this country!!

It's better than most thankfully, however tolerance and understanding has to be two way.

What Carol Thatcher was clearly out of out in today's Britain and she should have said it, however it was once part of British culture, to the extent the g word was use to sell jam, and as such it takes time to remove such cultural elements even if they are undesirable. Clearly Carol Thatcher deserved to be punished by the BBC and she should have issued an apology. All that has happened is she has been punished, there has been no apology and her actions has polarized opinions on the use of the word and probably brought a little used word back into use.

I would say only a small minority of people think what she said was right, most of the objection I heard on the Radio 5 live phone in were that it was she said it off air and following the story people seem to think the BBC have over reacted.

Reading between the lines about what is being said by Carol Thatcher and BBC it looks like the sacking was more to do with a clash or personalities. Management clearly thought she did something wrong but refused to condone the leak to the press. while Carol Thatcher refused to apologize to something she said in private without the BBC at least backing her up that the leaking of the story was wrong in the first place.

It's clear that she must have realized that implications of what she had said when the story broke in the press however she is like her mother a woman of principles and wouldn't back down and apologize because it wasn't said on air and the press should never have got the story. I would also go as far as saying that she probably felt that since she wasn't air that the story had nothing to do with her job at the BBC.

She could have been made to apologize if the management had handled the situation correctly but they were heavy handed and sacked her.