Phones, letters, e-mails
| 10:48 UK time, Friday, 21 July 2006
Among the audience response given to the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ in the past 24 hours were, again, many calls about our coverage of the Middle East. Other points raised were objections that Condoleezza Rice was referred to as 'Condy' on Newsnight, and that an item on the Today programme might encourage children to use water pistols during a water shortage. We also received this e-mail, our favourite of the week:
I am sorry to be a nitpicking pedant however I have had frequent arguements with friends on this topic and I am very surprised that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ of all people would get this fact wrong... Bananaman did not live at 29 Acacia Avenue as you , he lived at .(Story is now corrected.)
Comments
You've got to love the URL for that clip of the theme tune - maybe worth hosting a local copy?
What seriously concerns me about this post is that you corrected the article without any note of the correction. This is poor form. It would be proper to correct it and note that it has been corrected at the bottom so that in the future people can know that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ does make errors. The New York Times and websites like Slate.com frequently do exactly that.
I'm not at all sorry to be a nitpicking pedant, and that's not how you spell argument. I feel this is more important than where Bananaman lived.