WTF?

Distressing evidence emerges today that journalists on The Observer are becoming lazy irresponsible hacks who can’t be bothered to check the credentials of anyone purporting to be an expert. 

 

The evidence: quoting Christopher Malyszewicz as an "MRSA Expert" after Dr. Ben Goldacre, on the Observer’s sister paper, The Guardian, has convincingly shown Malyszewicz to be a quack of the first water. 

 

Still, the ever-hungry maw of journalism has to grab and masticate whatever it can. Witness the BBC’s faux pas over Guy Kewney. He’s an IT pundit who was recently invited to comment on the Apple versus Apple Corps legal wrangling. Imagine his surprise when waiting in BBC reception to see his taxi-driver (who is black and French-Gabonese) being introduced as Guy Kewney (who is white and English) and being interviewed on TV.

 

Update: apparently the taxi-driver wasn’t even a taxi-driver…