27May/05Off
Ever Decreasing Circles
I think it's possible that the Today programme has finally become so self-referential that it may never actually be able to extract its head from up its own arse.
In yesterday's programme, the unbearably smug John Humphreys was discussing something with some academic or other and became confused because of the way the man was using tenses. JH asked for clarification, which was fothcoming, and the matter moved on.
This morning, they managed to turn the event into an item all of its own, by getting some other academic on the line to discuss whether JH was right to be confused.
"Today programme in 'thinks it's as important as the new it reports' shock!"