C4, advertising their Oborne coverage
On Tuesday Peter Oborne announced on openDemocracy that he had resigned as Chief Political Commentator of the biggest broadsheet in the UK. I think it's fair to say his piece made a bit of a splash. The response has ranged from pernickety to profound, interesting to inane.
The Telegraph's short statement on the matter declared the article to be riddled with “inaccuracy and innuendo”. They also, as a few smart-Alecs on Twitter pointed out, used the word “refute” when they meant "rebut" or “reject”, implying at the very least that Oborne's complaints about slippage in their precise use of the English language are a fair cop.
