Saturday, 16 April 2016

Panglossian



Gossiping about Boris and Dave on this morning's Today, BBC political correspondent Ben Wright told John Humphrys (14:53 in) that Boris had "painted, in an interview with Laura [Kuenssberg], this typically Panglossian picture of Britain outside the EU".

Now either Ben doesn't know what 'Panglossian' means...


...or else he's just made a very biased statement about Boris Johnson there.

Hopefully it's the former. 
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 April 2016 at 14:15

    Could it be both? Hmmm...

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    1. Craig16 April 2016 at 14:21

      I've sent him a tweet informing him what 'Panglossian' means, just in case.

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  2. Anonymous16 April 2016 at 16:14

    LOL - I'm sure he was very happy to receive that! :)

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    1. Craig16 April 2016 at 16:19

      You'd think so but, oddly, he's not replied yet!

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    2. Anonymous16 April 2016 at 21:12

      I couldn't see it there. I don't use Twitter. Can you delete responses? Do you have a link?

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    3. Craig16 April 2016 at 21:42

      Well, I'm no great expert on Twitter either, but this should be the link to my tweet:

      https://twitter.com/craigmorecambe/status/721325422311579648

      I'm not sure about whether responses can be deleted. On some blogs a deleted comment takes the responses with it. On others it leaves them high and dry. I don't use Twitter enough (except for reading it) to be able to say which way it goes there.

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  3. David Preiser (USA)16 April 2016 at 16:48

    He knows. He even added the modifier "typically" to dismiss it further. It was a value judgment, which is supposed to be verboten. Except when it's acceptable 'analysis' from an expert journalist.

    Definitely one for BBC Complaints.

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