Russell Brand: Analysis or overkill?

Wowzers. Take a look at this list of stories on the Russell Brand fiasco, all taken from Media Guardian. There’s 49 in total — and that’s before the inevitable truckload of posts that will follow now that Brand has resigned. I predict we’ll hit the 100 mark by the end of the week.

None of the links I’ve added here have been online for more than four days. Can anyone honestly say there has been this many developments? I don’t think so.

There’s analysis, and then there’s just anal. Enough of this madness.

Web-savvy standup with a licence to thrill and offend
Puerile prank that left BBC stars and executives on the ropes
Suited and booted: fall and rise of a showman
Patrick Barkham on Russell Brand’s ‘Hare Krishna’ chant and temple visits
Georgina Baillie: the Satanic Slut at the centre of the Ross-Brand controversy
Video: Russell Brand quits as BBC radio host
John Harris: What they did was grotesque
Andrew Sachs: profile
Russell Brand resigns from BBC as Jonathan Ross apologises for ‘juvenile remarks’
Video: Andrew Sachs on Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand: ‘I’m not collecting apologies’
Maggie Brown: Suspension is not enough for Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand
Broadcast rules should have saved BBC
In pictures: ‘Sachsgate’ - who’s who in the BBC hierarchy
Media Monkey: more from Sachsgate
‘Sachsgate’ – who’s who in the BBC hierarchy?

Loads more after the jump…

Matt Wells: A parable of our times
Daily Mail leads Middle England against Ross, Brand and the BBC
Russell Brand: Profile
Daily Mail leads Middle England against Ross, Brand and the BBC
Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’s Radio 2 stunt: the reaction
Has the BBC done enough by suspending Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand?
Brand and Ross: Pilloried on Page 3
Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand suspended by BBC
The BBC should admit its mistakes more quickly
Sachs’ granddaughter Georgina Baillie calls for Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross to be sacked
Tories link Radio 2 phone prank to public service broadcasting debate
Laurence Howarth: Were those who complained about Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross personally offended by their stunt?
Offence record: The most complained-about shows
Lucy Mangan on the chequered history of phone-prank comedy
Radio head by Zoe Williams
BBC on defensive and Ofcom steps in as 10,000 complain about Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross
Gordon Brown criticises Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand’s BBC phone prank
BBC radio chief tries to quell storm over Brand and Ross phone prank
David Cameron wades in to Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross phone prank row as complaints top 10,000
Media Monkey special: the fallout from Ross and Brand’s prank calls
Poll: Should Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross be fired?
Ofcom to investigate Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’s phone prank
Media Monkey: For anyone unclear on the Mail’s position on Brand and Ross …
BBC should ‘take some pain’ for phone prank, says Will Wyatt
BBC says sorry for prank phone calls
John Harris: Ross and Brand incident says a lot about recent histories of Radios 1 and 2
Michele Hanson: Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand think everyone wants them. Where do they get their confidence?
Complaints to BBC over Russell Brand phone prank top 1,500
Media Monkey: Outraged Sun driven to print topless pics of Andrew Sachs’s granddaughter
Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross’s ‘offensive’ calls: transcript
The BBC has apologised after Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross left lewd comments on former Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs’ answermachine
Julia Raeside: Andrew Sachs was not the only victim of Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand
BBC apologises to Andrew Sachs for Russell Brand phone prank
Russell Brand highlights Mail Hitler links in apology to Fawlty Towers star

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