An embarrassment for the BBC

found this in digital spy. For a broadcasting corporation like BBC I find this ridiculous and unbelievable. They should feel embarrassed.
digital spy reports_

The BBC has said it is "very embarrassed" after requesting an interview with the late music legend Bob Marley.

The request came in an email to the Marley Foundation asking the star to "spend one or two days with us" for a documentary about his hit song 'No Woman, No Cry.'

In the letter, the BBC explained that filming was due to take place in the summer but added: "Our schedule is flexible."

Marley died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36.

"We are obviously very embarrassed that we didn't realise that the letter to the Marley Foundation did not acknowledge that Mr Marley is no longer with us," said a BBC spokesman today.

"Because of the volume of approaches we have sent out this was a genuine mistake when a sentence in a standard letter was overlooked. The Marley Foundation has been extremely good humoured about this and we have apologised for the error."

I just read that aswell. How could they make such a mistake? Jeez!

Haha oh dear.

Easy mistake to make though. Standard letters are sent out all the time in big corporations. It's only fair that occasionally a mistake will happen. Especially with a massive company like the BBC who must send out thousands of letters.

So is this actually a genuine thing or just Digital Spy nonsense?

Do we have gullable written on our heads? I think its an april fool, the BBC are stupid, but not THAT stupid

But it was reported after midday - if you're into all that superstition thing!

Well it was posted at 18:10 BST so if it is an April Fool, they were too late

mmm, its a pretty dumb thing to do, maybe the BBC did do it

It has been in today's Daily Mirror all day aswell! How many April Fool's stories do each newspaper run these days?

Hmm...perhaps it's a double blunder and Digital Spy have reported on a fake story believing it to be real.

It is reported on Teletext too (or possibly Ceefax I was looking at both earlier).

it's not an April Fool.