BBC: Slower Than A Bucket Of Snails?

Hot on the tail of America's media breakdown, featuring the spectacular Rathergate implosion, British Broadcasting Corporation came up with their own example of 'hard' investigative reporting...

BBC World said on Friday that an interview it ran with a man it identified as a spokesman for Dow Chemical Co, in which he said the U.S. company accepted responsibility for India's Bhopal disaster, was wrong and part of an "elaborate deception."

So hard is their reporting that it appears that making a phone call to verify the credibility of their source is beneath them. And it is not like this is the only recent failure at BBC...

Update: Jude Finisterra?!