Sounds like the Beeb have resorted to 'if you can't beat them, join them' tactics.
The number of examples of recent journalistic ineptitude/unscrupulousness never fails to disgust me. For instance, on the night of the Morecambe Bay helicopter crash, Sky News used an enormous picture of a Sea King as a backdrop, with 'HELICOPTER CRASH' superimposed in large letters. The Sea King is purely a military helicopter (in the UK, anyway), and it was on a day of the year when very few military helos apart from Sea Kings would have been operating - I wonder how many wives/friends of SARBoys turned on the TV and feared the worst for their nearest & dearest until it transpired that it was not a Sea King and not even a mil helo.
At least that wasn't actually malicious, unlike the journos covering the Nimrod crash who were desperate to get the names of the victims, and who threatened to go around the married patch knocking on doors asking questions because they reckoned the MCO was taking too long to release the names...
Or the local rag journo who, when a colleague lost a baby to a sudden death, knocked on their front door the day after their bereavement, asking for an interview, and then had the gall to go back two days later and ask again. Makes you wonder how the journo found out the address - someone must have given it away...