NO! NO! NO!

BBC Radio 4 yesterday had some reporter doing his outside broadcast from a truck fest to jazz up a story that truckers are the people being hardest hit by the recession. He said "There's so much fuel burning here I can feel holes opening in the ozone layer above us!"

NO! STUPID BOY! GO AND STAND IN THE CORNER!

You would have thought that most journos would have sorted out the difference between climate change and ozone depletion by now, but apparently not. Barbara Ellen made a similar blunder in the Observer a couple of weeks ago.

Hint for meeja types: if you don't know what you're talking about, either find out, or, alternatively, SHUT IT!

Harrumph...