Earlier this week Carla and I went to the wonderful Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles to see photographer Annie Leibovitz read from her new book, At Work. The purpose of this book, she said, was to let young photographers find out about photography, and to explain the stories behind the many amazing photographs she's taken in her 40+ year career as a photographer for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. I wasn't expecting to be interested in the text of the book (and it is mostly text, not photos) but I found it to be immensely readable. At Work is not only a gossip lover's delight (she tells fun stories about all the famous people she'd photographed, like Hunter S. Thompson, The Rolling Stones, Queen Elizabeth, and Al Sharpton), its also an inspiration for anyone who does creative work and wants to continuously challenge themselves to become better at their craft. Excerpt I bought my first real camera in Japan, a Minolta SR-T 101. The first thing I did with it was take it on a climb up Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is something every Japanese does at some point, but it’s harder than you might think. I was young, and I started up the mountain fast. I didn’t know about pacing. My brother Phil was even younger – he was thirteen – and he ran ahead of me. Phil disappeared. The camera felt like it weighed a ton. It was awkward. It got heavier the higher we went. After a while I was pretty sure I wasn’t going to make it, but just then a group of elderly Japanese women in dark robes came marching along in single file. They were chanting in an encouraging way and I fell in behind them. We passed Phil at the seventh way station. He was lying flat on his back. When you climb Mt. Fuji you stay overnight at the eighth way station and get up in the morning so that you can reach the top at sunrise. It’s a glorious moment. Spiritually significant. When I got to the top I realized that the only film I had was the roll in the camera. I hadn’t thought much about the film situation. I photographed the sunrise with the two or three frames I had left. At Work...br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=658a58f7618d8150e2f7d06c57ebf403p=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=658a58f7618d8150e2f7d06c57ebf403p=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=658a58f7618d8150e2f7d06c57ebf403" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/24449?ns=guardianpageName=Media%3A+BBC+reveals+catalogue+of+errors+that+led+to+Russell+Brand+and+Jonathan+Ross+rowch=Mediac3=guardian.co.ukc4=Russell+Brand%2CJonathan+Ross%2CBBC%2CRadio+industry+%28Media%29%2CMedia%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CMedia+Weekly%2CComedy%2CRadio+Media%2CTelevision+Media%2CTVc6=Tara+Conlanc7=2008_11_21c8=1121970c9=articlec10=GUc11=Mediac12=Russell+Brandc13=c14=h2=GU%2FMedia%2FRussell+Brand" width="1" height="1" //divpThe a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/bbc"BBC/a has admitted that nobody at Radio 2 listened to the controversial a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/russell-brand"Russell Brand/a show in which he and a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/jonathan-ross"Jonathan Ross/a left offensive remarks on Andrew Sachs' mobile voicemail before it was aired. /ppThis admission is just one of a series of damning revelations revealed today when the BBC published its internal report on the "Sachsgate" affair./ppThe report includes a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/nov/21/russell-brand-jonathan-ross1"a series of revealing emails/a between senior BBC Radio 2 executives and The Russell Brand Show producer Nick Philps prior to the October 18 broadcast that sparked the Sachsgate row./ppThese email exchanges lay bare a breakdown in communication and, in some cases, what the BBC called a "failure of editorial judgment". /ppThe report concludes there was a "lack of direct control by Radio 2" Brand's independent production company, Vanity Projects, which made his show for the station./ppAnd it reveals that Ross and Brand had recently been on the BBC's "safeguarding trust" course – set up and designed to ensure no repeat of the breaches of viewers' trust and editorial standards that have dogged the corporation over the last 18 months./ppIn what will be seen as an extraordinary decision, it has also emerged that no compliance form was completed by a BBC executive or producer ahead of the transmission of the Brand show on Saturday October 18./ppThe BBC management report into the affair said the October 18 programme was only "retrospectively approved" for transmission by the Radio 2 head of compliance, Dave Barber./ppLesley Douglas, the Radio 2 controller, told the internal inquiry she believed Barber had a "responsibility to listen to the programme and to sign it off", whereas he "was adamant" it was not part of his job. Douglas and Barber subsequently resigned over the Sachsgate affair, as did Brand./ppBrand's show used to be made in-house by the BBC, but this year was transferred Vanity Projects./ppThe report said Barber "recognised that independent programmes should be listened to inside the BBC but not that it was his responsibility"./pp"We hadn't discussed how this was to happen – perhaps there was an assumption I would do it," he told the BBC Sachsgate inquiry./ppAnother problem highlighted by today's BBC report is the fact that despite the concerns raised about potentially controversial content on Thursday October 16, the editing of the Brand show that aired on Saturday October 18, was not completed until just before transmission. /pp"The producer [Nic Philps] did not complete and submit a compliance form. He said he did not do so because he knew that there was no one at Radio 2 to receive and read the form, therefore he elected to complete the form the following week," the report stated./pp"The Radio 2 head of compliance [Barber] said he recognised that as a result of the situation described above no one in Radio 2 would read the compliance form or listen to the programme before it went to air," it added./pp"It was his judgment that he did not need to see the compliance form or hear the programme ahead of transmission."/ppThe report stated that on Tuesday October 21: "The Russell Brand programme producer completed and submitted an independent production company compliance form for the programme of October 18 which was then loaded into the BBC's Proteus system. Once in the system the Radio 2 head of compliance retrospectively approved transmission."/ppOther breakdowns in communication are highlighted by the investigation, including the fact that because she was not in the office Douglas was not aware for four days that Sachs' agent had emailed her a complaint about his treatment by Brand and Ross on Thursday October 24./ppShe only discovered it had been sent on the evening of Sunday October 26 – after the Mail on Sunday ran a front-page story./ppOn Saturday October 25 Douglas had texted the director of audio and music, Tim Davie, to say: "re tomorrow's Mail regarding last week's Russell Brand Show where he called Andrew Sachs ... I am not around tomorrow morning – for info the programme had language and content warnings at the front as did the online./pp"The producer checked with Andrew Sachs that it could be used before it went out as the show was pre-recorded./pp"We have received no complaint from him or his management as far as we are aware and the show itself received jsu [sic] 2 complaints with one being about Russell sending up Jonathan Ross who was co-hosting with him (for info the Mail often do damning pieces about Russell or Jonathan)."/ppUnfortunately, all through the day on October 26 after the Mail on Sunday splash the BBC press office had been "maintaining Radio 2's line that the BBC was unaware of any complaint and this was included in BBC News' coverage of the story on the day", the report stated./ppAs soon as she saw the email from Sachs' agent that evening, Douglas wanted to send an apology but was advised against it by the BBC's corporate press office./ppAlthough BBC management and the trust have now completed their reports, regulator Ofcom is still investigating the complaints it received about the lewd messages to Sachs./ppOfcom has the power to fine the BBC up to £250,000 per transgression for breaches of its broadcasting code. /ppemstrong·/strong To contact the MediaGuardian news desk email a href="mailto:editor@mediaguardian.co.uk"editor@mediaguardian.co.uk/a or phone 020 7239 9857. 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