Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Saturday 23 February 2008
Now Just Too Widespread To Correct?
The BBC increasing gives interviewees the wrong by-lines. Last night, it managed to inform us that Roger Wilkin, the former US Assistant Attorney General and an elderly black man, was in fact “Senator Hillary Clinton”. Why is this sort of carelessness spreading as it is? And why is there never any sort of correction? Is it now just too widespread to correct?
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