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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...
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