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Narrated by James Marriott
This is a grim day for mankind. The world’s sole conduit of absolute truth has just been caught telling a lie. I am not sure who, henceforth, we can turn to when, bewildered by claim and counterclaim, we gaze towards the light and beseech it for an answer.
The conduit in question is Marianna Spring, who last year became the BBC’s first disinformation correspondent. Her job is to adjudicate on the veracity of everything, which may cause you to wonder how the BBC’s 1,999 other journos occupy their time – making stuff up? Marianna was caught out bigging herself up on a CV she sent to the New York website Coda Story, claiming she had worked with a BBC correspondent reporting on international news during
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