A Daily Mail apology is as rare as hen's teeth. So when Lord Justice Leveson comes to making his recommendations on the prominence of apologies in newspapers, he should refer to page 2 of Thursday's Mail for the Clarifications & Corrections column. But before that LJL should check Monday's front page splash: BBC Tells Stars to Dodge Tax (now removed from the web). If in any doubt, the sub headline read "Staff face the ultimatum: Go off the books, or face the sack". Oh dear. As any law-abiding taxpayer knows, it is a criminal offence to dodge tax. So no wonder the BBC finance boss Zarin Patel was incensed. She extracted this apology out of the Mail: "While it is true that the BBC have asked hundreds of workers to set up personal service companies, we accept that neither the BBC, nor its chief financial officer, Zarin Patel, have told members of its payroll (or freelancers) to avoid or evade tax and apologise to them for any such suggestion." Wonder if she's happy that it was just two paragraphs on page 2?
