Monday, October 13, 2008

Never Believe the Newspapers...

Doctor Who producer calls Prince of Wales a 'miserable swine'

I was there, and this is factually correct, he did. But in a humorous offhand way, not in a serious straightforward quotable way. In no way did we take him to mean it seriously as in the way it was reported.

It's funny, but when journalists report on something you know about, be it an event you were at, or something technical like engineering, they so often get it wrong that you have to wonder about everything else you read in the press...