More media “brilliant” moments…

Ξ November 27th, 2007 | → 0 Comments | ∇ The Media |

If you know me, you know I hold the mainstream media in a pretty low regard.  I’ve always found the BBC to be fairly biased to the left, and at times downright incorrect in many assessments and guilty of false reporting.  Well, I must say that I take some guilty pleasure in seeing them squirm from their absolute ignorance.

The history of Newsnight’s nightly markets update has not always been a happy one. On Thursday we reported that in New York the “Dow Jones was substantially down amidst more credit crunch fears”. That’s odd, many of you told us, as – being Thanksgiving – Wall Street’s finest were on a day-off. Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders was mortified – “unforgivable and embarrassing” was her verdict.

You think?