It all started when rdf Media, a production company, sexed up a documentary it had made for the bbc called "A Year with the Queen" in order to sell it to foreign television firms at a market in Cannes. In a promotional tape, Stephen Lambert, chief creative officer of rdf, switched bits of footage of the queen to make it look as if she had stormed out of a photo-shoot when in fact she had not. The bbc found out about the deception too late and dithered about admitting it. On October 5th an independent investigation into "Crown-gate" prompted the controller of bbc1 to resign and plunged the corporation into crisis. More blows are to fall on the Beeb.
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