As much as I loathe the BBC, I do not think this will be the case. They are not yet as brutalized as a great deal of private big business is. On the surface at least, they have made a great joke of it and been the first to laugh at themselves - where do you think I first heard of it? And I think this did something to blunt the inevitable attacks from the BBC's sworn enemies, especially the Rupert Murdoch empire. I was quite surprised to see that his SUN newspaper only had the story in an inside page, and pretty much as a joke. If they had tried to cover it up, let alone sack people, Murdoch would have been all over them.