I'm working through Module Three: How to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away.
How To Write About Goodies and Baddies (BBC Style) Page 2
Not sure that was the same module, but I clicked all the 'right' answers; one of the those multiple choice tests where anyone with half a brain can work out what answer they are looking for. The one about the MP was a little worrying, as it clearly states that the writer believes the MP was lying, but then insists his side of the story is given.
And the Times left out the most important piece of writing about baddies: accents.
Give all thieves scouse accents and Northerners who are a bit canny should have a Geordie accent.
This is my favourite bit of the article:
' Last week, BBC2 viewers were solemnly warned by a continuity announcer that an Alan Whicker programme contained "scenes of bullfighting" '
I'm with the BBC on this one - the thought of a furious Alan Whicker attacking a Spaniard with his bloody horns is utterly terrifying.
Anyway, what wasn't astonishing about this article - published by a Murdoch-owned paper - was that it pounced on one admittedly silly policy in a bid to put the BBC in a bad light. And now I'm getting off my soapbox.