Er, Hello, Mr Telegraph Sub-Editor? Hello, can you hear me down there in Aussie land?

Laura Moffat was the Labour MP for Crawley, not Croydon Central, North, East or South……..or even West.

and whilst you are fixing that little faux pas……

Andrew Pelling was the sitting MP ….for the Conservative Party.

Whoops, don’t get off the line yet……

Gerry Ryan is the candidate for the Labour Co-op party.

Essential factual information courtesy of The Daily Telegraph, sub-edited in Rhodes……Australia!

Doncha just love the totally superior Main Stream Media?

UPDATE: The Subs have been hard at work overnight, and as of 6.30am have produced this effort.

Mmmmm, getting better Brucie, not quite there yet……is this a concerted effort to get your Conservative voters to vote for Gerry Ryan the Labour candidate, or has Gerry Ryan jumped ship and you are not telling anyone?

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April 29, 2010 at 16:00

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JuliaM April 28, 2010 at 07:26

Standards – we used to haz dem…

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Pericles April 28, 2010 at 08:33

Well, given the standard of its own editing and sub-editing (unto the third and fourth generation &c. &c.), I can see why The Daily Telegraph might hope to sustain improvement by having such tasks performed in Australia — or even Croooooyyyydon.

I see the fools are still using ‘sunk’ as the praeterite of ‘to sink’, even after I wrote to the editor offering suitable nautical advice on the matter.  One need hardly add that, in common with most, they use ‘bail out’ (in relation to sinking banks and countries), when they mean ‘bale out’.

No mention in either of their attempts at Croydon of one Gavin Barwell, semble the Conservatives’ candidate for the seat hitherto occupied by Mr. Pelling.

Wouldn’t it be nice — perhaps it has already happened — if one Eric Pode stood for a seat in Croooooyyyydon ?

Only good thing to come out of Croydon since they closed the aerodrome is Sue Perkins :  what ever her political persuasions a tip-top entertainer.

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My Thoughts UK April 28, 2010 at 08:33

I wouldn’t be surprised if the reporters read the blogs, like your’s Anna, to get their stories.

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Anna Raccoon April 28, 2010 at 08:50

My Thoughts UK,

I know that they do!

I spent an entire afternoon caluclating how much Labour had spent in the week after the budget, emptying the coffers – and the next day the exact same story showed up in the Telegraph, including my mistake!!!!

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Specky April 28, 2010 at 10:25

The editors give them a brief and they write it up obiediently maybe compliently would be a better term.
There are still some good investigative writers though Booker for example
The dark forces ,LOL, who own the media are the dictat overall.
That’s what I think anyhow.
Toilet paper publications the lot of ‘em.
As for the BBC they views are so biased only the terminally dumb are stilll buying it.

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Ancient and Tattered Airman April 28, 2010 at 21:43

Ah, Specky, we are all terminally dumb as we have ‘bought’ the BBC through our annual TV tax which is used to hire and promote individuals in it – to say nothing of paying trifling sums like £18 million for a three year contract for their adjudged stars.