BBC’s ‘Newsnight’ moves Syria; editor ‘too tired’ to notice

Here is a map which appeared on TV screens throughout the UK during the June 12th edition of BBC Two’s ‘Newsnight‘.

Newsnight map

Now of course the BBC regularly tells its funding public how committed it is to rigorous standards of accuracy, but apparently those standards become somewhat more flaccid when the editor is feeling a tad dozy on the job.

Katz tweet

On the bright side; Ian Katz is the editor of a TV show – not a neurosurgeon or a pilot.   

 

 

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