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BBC standards: low, Politico.com standards: lower
This is something that annoys me whenever it comes up in political dialogue, but when that dialogue involves a BBC correspondent deferring to a Politico.com analyst, it drives me up the wall.
In a discussion of today's Supreme Court ruling, someone at Politico commented (and I'm paraphrasing), "the only Americans likely to have any interest in gun control are those living in Urban areas... but that's a relatively small minority." The reporter didn't call him out on this slight inaccuracy.
Just for future reference, those of us living in urban areas account for about 75% of the population. That's some minority.
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Comments (2)
...and that assumes he was correct in stating that only urban residents care about gun control.
June 26, 2008 10:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
I always thought BBC's US correspondents were curiously out of touch. For instance, it took them incredibly long to realize that Hillary was going to lose the primary.
June 27, 2008 7:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
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