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The Whitehouse

July 14, 2009 11:58

Watching the Daily Politics on BBC2. The caption under Andrew Roberts reads:

Andrew has dined in the Whitehouse with...

We hand over our earnings, under threat of imprisonment, for this.

More grist to Peter Sissons' mill:

At today’s BBC, a complaint I often heard from senior producers was
that they dared not reprimand their subordinates for basic journalistic
mistakes – such as getting ages, dates, titles and even football scores
wrong – it being politically incorrect to risk offending them.

Quite. There's no such place as the Whitehouse. It's the White House.

UPDATEL That's not strictly true...

July 14, 2009 11:58

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