Saturday, June 04, 2011

John Reid features in Correction of the Day

From the Corrections and Clarifications column in this morning's Guardian:
A commentary by John Reid ... omitted to make clear that the former home secretary is a paid director of the security company G4S Regional Management (UK & Ireland) Ltd. Guardian guidelines put the onus on editors to ensure that, in the case of external contributions to the newspaper, a writer's personal, philosophical or financial connections are spelled out at the end of the piece when these relate to the subject matter.
I think it would be best if the old brute could have this financial interest tattooed on his forehead, so no one could possibly be unaware of it.

2 comments:

Kimpatsu said...

Only if we can also tattoo Vince Cable in the same way.

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Applauding causes milk to be ejected from my nose. Did they post this under corrections? Someone is in big trouble. I read the release, which was on the White House website, when it stated ‘(laughter).” Now, I see that it has been changed to “(applause).” But what is the truth? Did the White House just doctor the transcript to mislead the public? Or was a mistake originally made in the transcript? If the former, this information should be blasted all over the place.