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Something Memorable

The Foam of testosterone

Nov 20, 2021
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BBC’s guidance on impartiality is here.

Anyway, Luc now hates himself for doing his job, for connecting the dots assigned him in a ground-glass editorial policy devised to delight only the departed puppy-dog man with a gruff exterior and a handful of construction company executives from Odesa, for casting the pro-business, pro-globalization, Eisenhower-manqué Chretien Liberals as all that stands in the way of the perfection of the market (hah!), for laboring at a tone of such inelegance and witlessness it feels like watching an old man attempt to take a crap. Yes, he loathes himself so much he’s taken to thinking about the “gold standard” of BBC editorial guidelines (I mean it, I really do!).

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