Words Dept.: entry

…will be resumed imminently. I’ve been on holiday (Lake District, since you ask), which is why I haven’t posted for a while.

Glad to see the thing about the Dispatches programme is still attracting interest. The Liberal Democrat Voice says this blog hosts an “interesting online discussion” about the programme (ha!), while David Ottewell of the Manchester Evening News says he broke Andrew Gilligan’s “reheated” story on page 2 of the MEN on 2 September 2004.

On his own blog, Ottewell says he won’t be following up Gilligan’s claims because the story “hasn’t actually moved on since I first broke it” but suggests journalists are under no obligation to label older stories as old, reasoning that “to draw attention to that fact would be unnecessary and foolish”.