(Minor) Journalistic Crimes

You may or may not know that my most oft-used news source is the BBC— because I'm an anglophile, and they cover a large part of the world, and they always have the amusing stories at the right-hand side of the page. The classic one I cite is the big news that Romans committed the "fashion crime" of wearing socks under their sandals— so imagine my surprise when a very similar article showed up this evening.

News must be slow— or else they are not doing a particularly thorough search of their morgue. A good journalist would have done some research and found out that the same angle (and jokes) had already been used.