[privacy] CCTV 'Mission Creep' again.

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Thu Aug 16 09:42:04 CDT 2007


* 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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