III Facts are sacred, say hack: the world over. Don't
8th December 1988, Page 58
8th December 1988
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Page 58, 8th December 1988
— III Facts are sacred, say hack: the world over. Don't
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laugh yet, I haven't got to the punch. line. The trouble is that facts can be as slippery as a bar of soap, compounded by the fact that journalists make cock-ups like anyone else.
Even the august Economist Intelligence Unit can fall flat on its face. The Hawk recently ran his eye over reams of information on Renault kindly sent by the EIU, only to find that it had invented a new van called the Renault Express. The Hawk presumes they meant the Renault Extra.
"Intelligence" unit? Well, the Hawk has made enough cock-ups himself to give it the benefit of the doubt.
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