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Re: [privacy] CCTV 'Mission Creep' again.


From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:42:04 +0200

* Kevin McAleavey:

But NOW we've got an interesting story if the beeb published one
thing and then revised it without an "editor's note" saying
"corrects this specific detail" or other "marginal thinking." Be
quite interested indeed though if the "mission creep" is for
real. We're supposed to be spotting terrorists, not village idjits.
(grin)

The editorial standards call for unmark revisions of articles.  It's
not really a BBC-specific matter, but the BBC is pretty good at this
game:

<http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004665.html>
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