DISQUS

Without wishing to further any air of despondency, I would just like to point out that in the BBC, that institution seen as a paragon of journalistic skill and integrity, over-worked and under-skilled journos get basic things wrong on a regular basis. As every, people tend to fall down on basic numerical 'explanatory' skills (eg. 'x has increased by 100%' is not the same as ' x is 100% of what it was a year ago' and so many others i could bore you with...). But even the specialist business journalists get it wrong. For example, I worked on a programme the other day which gave three seperate figures during the course of the hour for the increase in profits of a major company. Sad to say, the problem isn't just in TT...