Ben Harridan is in the conference room of the Caucasian, juggling the demands of an imminent subs promo deadline with his hectic Foreign Editor’s schedule. He pitches to NY via the video conferencing thingummy…

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So the ‘average’ grey sock can have its own hidden virtues too – who knew? Well, we do…

Ben, my freyend, that’s a terrific subscriptions promo. It’ll appeal to our discerning readership – hey, appeal, apparel…appeal…

Heck, huhh, haa. Master James. Smashing.

Now, I need to discuss May’s lying bonus. It seems you had a bumper month! I’ll cite somma the highlites:

– Israel, Netanyahu is a very nice man really….Obama is a communist North Korean Manchurian candidate…Dave Cameron may be an old Etonian but he has ridden a bicycle and once met a member of Boney M…Tony Blair wasn’t really god-father to paaa’s other son…more weaponry will hasten a more stable world (we love that one), internet censorship is actually an important security measure… I mean, the list goes on, Ben…ad infinitum…

(more here harridan’s extraOrdinary rendition    and   harridan cOnfronts the 10 Absolutes of Reuters Journalism )