More broken news

A BBC News journalist this morning commented on how, during John McCain’s speech at the Republican Convention, the crowd started shouting “USA! USA! USA!” in a seemingly spontaneous fit of patriotic fervour. It made me laugh to then read Michael Tomasky’s article in the Guardian where he explained that the reason the chanting started was less to do with McCain firing up the crowd (which he failed to do) and more to do with the crown trying to drown out a protester who got onto the floor and started shouting. Always worth getting your news from more than one place, and one more example of how, just of late, I’m not entirely trusting the news from the BBC.