Journalist's

[Carsie]

Unless you're as deaf as a post and as blind as a bat you'll realise that journalists from some quarters have been getting somewhat of a deserved bashing recently.

Without wishing to wade in too deeply against them I had to laugh at this monumental faut pas I came across this evening, taken from the BBC website

http://www.bbc.co.uk/essex/content/image_galleries...

"Cars of all eras, shapes and colours were displayed alongside each other, like this 1920s Bugatti and luminous green VW Beetle!!








Shock horror! “and a luminous green VW Beetle (double exclamation mark!)"

Edited by Carsie on Friday 29th July 21:34

[Carsie]

Oh Cr** ! I've done it again!

Journalists aren't supposed to have an apostrophe "s"

Edited by Carsie on Friday 29th July 22:03

[lowdrag]

"As a journalist I can see nothing wrong with the statement or the photo", he states innocently

A lovely Bug (sic) and he seems to be a member of a number of clubs, probably BRDC and other very selective club badges there.

[VetteG]

It is from BBC Essex, maybe it was written by a local girl!

G

[marshalla]

Carsie said:

Oh Cr** ! I've done it again!

Journalists aren't supposed to have an apostrophe "s"

Carsie said:

Without wishing to wade in too deeply against them I had to laugh at this monumental faut pas I came across this evening, taken from the BBC website

Ahem - "fauX pas"

[niva441]

Is the Bugatti a VW based kit?

[mikey77]

Could be...

[alfa-chris]

niva441 said:

Is the Bugatti a VW based kit?

definitly os, just have a look at the front-axle. This is typical for VW untill the mid sixties.

[williamp]

I'm willing to cut him some slack. He probably had 10 minutes to name all those images before going onto the enxct project- maybe a garden show. And although its obvious to us its not a real Bugatti, to someone who isnt into cars, and wont have time to properly research everything, getting the name of what it looks like is a pretty good shot.

Afterall, if he had to label the images from a garden show, horticulturasts would laugh (as we do) if he got the latin names wrong for all those plants..