Brand Banished, Ross Suspended... does anyone else feel the BBC are taking steps backward instead of forward?

The dust has settled a little bit and now we can look at the complaints made at Russell Brand's BBC Radio 2 show, guest-hosting Jonathan Ross, for what they really are. A joke. Not a funny joke either, less so than the prank phone calls to Fawlty Towers star, Andrew Sachs, that 3,000 members of the public complained about.

I can understand that it was offensive, but so is a lot of comedy being published on television every day. The problem however, is that t was a pre-recorded program that should of been edited down. The problem lies with the editor of the show.
The Guardian reported that after the BBC admitting they should of helped their stars but instead were worried that:

"if we had gone soft, the Daily Mail would have crucified us. And anyway, our viewers and listeners were telling us it was a story," said one senior BBC News insider. "The problem was that no one with a journalism background was around at a senior level, and Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News, could offer advice - but it was not taken [by management]."

Am I really paying for a company that is scared of a slag rag like the Daily Mirror? After, admittedly, over-hyping a story about their two funniest talents, the BBC have brought on even more shit on their doorstep than if they had left it. A BBC spokeswoman said that they only received two complaints before the event was publicised, which were unrelated to the phone calls, and received the rest only after the event was published.


So here we are, a scared BBC probably either taking things too seriously or a more worrying angle, as suggested by Phil Jupitus, using this as a distraction to "take people’s minds off the bad news, the fact that the country is at war or that there is a massive economic collapse going on.” I must ask... why? Just why?