It's got to the stage where whenever I read a BBC News online report I automatically think, ''Has the BBC fact-checked this?''.
I don't trust their basic competence these days.
A whole new blog might be devoted to correcting basic errors in BBC website reports.
A fresh case in point...
As you'd expect the Twitter-obsessed BBC picked up on the Twitter furore over Lord [Digby] Jones's criticisms of BBC sports presenter Alex Scott for doin' a Beth Rigby and droppin' her 'g's.
Alex Scott proud of accent amid criticism from Lord Jones - BBC News
I immediately spotted something that didn't look right and Googled to fact-check myself.
The BBC writes:
Digby was never a Labour transport minister. He was a trade minister under Gordon Brown.
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