Matt Frei on tonight’s BBC news, and re George Tenet and the threat posed by Iraq:
The word ‘imminent’ was never used but the impression of imminence was created. [Copied down by hand but I’ll vouch for its substantive accuracy – NG.]
Norman Geras re Matt Frei:
He never says ‘I’m a BBC reporter with a definite axe to grind’, but the impression of axe-to-grindism is created. (I preferred his predecessor in Washington, Stephen Sackur, by whom the impression of a conscientious professional journalist was created.)