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[poliphilo]

Jeremy Hunt- the Culture Minister- was complaining the other day about left-wing bias at the BBC. I've been thinking recently- mainly in relation to the reporting of the student protests- that the BBC has been bending overmuch towards the right. This is good, isn't it? If both extremes think the BBC is prejudiced against them then the BBC must be doing exactly what it's supposed to do and steering a course straight down the middle.

Hunt is the one whose name James Naughtie committed a spoonerism on. I guess he's smarting from that.

I've learned that Charlie Gilmour, the silly young toff who swung on the flag, is an old boy of my school- Lancing College. I'll bet they don't mention that in any of the glossy magazines they send me. 

Comments

[jfs.livejournal.com]

Slight pedant point, but a Spoonerism would leave the Minister as Hairyme Junt, which has a poetry of it's own. What we joyously heard is apparantly called an eggcorn.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah right. :)

I suppose the "c" became detatched from the word "culture".