Carol Thatcher's sacking from the BBC's One show has brought out numerous pundits raging from the BBC being scared of its own shadow to Mrs Thatcher's daughter getting her just deserts.
Is their a difference between saying something in public and saying something in the privacy of the "Green Room" and is this yet another example of political correctness gone mad?
From a journalistic point of view this raises a number of issues wavering between the rights of an individaul to privacy and the public interest element.
The remark was after all said off camera,yet given the subject's connection to a recent Prime Minister,many journalists wouuld argue that the public have a right to know what Maggie's daughter was thinking?
My take on it all for what it is worth.Carol Thatcher has built her success on the back of her parentage and much publicity.She is not camera shy and has been quite brazen in the past in courting its gaze.
Therefore she is on public display wherever she goes(excepting perhaps the confines of her home).She knew the risks of using such language which in current society is considered racist,and made a bad mistake.
Should she have been sacked? Many are acussing the BBC of double standards citing the issue of Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles and Halle Berry.Unfortunately for Carol,the corporation now must been seen to be squeakly clean
