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February 2, 2007
Putting the record straight
It seems my colleague Ian Carter, the editor of the Croydon Advertiser (http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk is in a mischievous mood today.
He currently has a number of vacancies to fill and goes on to describe one of the tests he puts aspiring reporters through to see if they are up to the high standards he demands on his papers.
However, he also claims that when I sat a previous version of the test I scored 'somewhere in the region of zero.
I would just like to put the record straight and say that Ian has used some journalistic licence with his comments and remind him that he fared little better when he sat the spelling part of the test.
For those interested the questions he claims I fared so badly on are as follows:
1) Who is Secretary of State for Education?
2) Who came second in Celebrity Big Brother?
3) Which company has withdrawn support for the Wallace and Gromit films?
5) Who is captain of the English cricket team?
6) Which teams are in the final of this season's Carling Cup?
7) What do the following abbreviations stand for: PCT; ASBO; COI; CD; TUC.
If you have nothing better to do over the weekend have a go at the questions and let me know the answers - seeing I did so badly myself...
Posted by aseal at February 2, 2007 12:47 PM