According the now legendarily bad City Slickers: Bucharest published by the Independent on Sunday (IoS) at the weekend, Romania’s prime minister is Calin Popescu Tariceanu, a man who of course has not been PM since December and who is no longer even the leader of his own party.
According to the IoS, Bucharest Arc de Triumf dates from 1878, which suggests that the author didn’t take all of his inspiration from Bucharest In Your Pocket: we do not make such appalling factual errors.
The news that Baneasa Shopping City opened last Friday will come as a bit of a shock to the people who have been shopping there for the past year, though a quick visit to the English-language page of the shopping centre’s website will reveal the root of the problem: it states the opening will be April 18. It doesn’t state the year, and the IoS’s ‘man in Bucharest’ clearly did not bother to find out which year, he probably assumed they meant this year… (and compounded his error: April 18 this year is a Saturday…)
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I know lots of ‘old media’ hacks and I know for a fact that they’re all at it
So your name is Craig, nice 2 meet u Craig, I won’t call you Gordon anymore, that’s a Scottish name like in Gordon Brown
As a purveyor (in other parts at least, not here) of – don’t laugh – ‘expertise’ I spend half my time these days defending such expertise (as in well written, original and factually correct information) from the scourge of amateurism and the free for all that is Web 2.0, user generated content etc. That’s why I get annoyed when the same ‘old media’ I take time out to defend, end up ‘borrowing ideas’ from Bucharest In Your Pocket or simply getting things very wrong. It makes them no better than an amateur in his bedroom with a laptop and a Virtual Tourist account.
I think the World needs a crusade against Bucharest factual errors in English broadsheets. It could bring them all to their knees. The people will not stand for it