Friday 12 February 2010

It happens to the best of us.


A funny story from my desk neighbour, education correspondent Ian Wishart, pictured here looking rather intense.

He posted it on his blog a few days ago and I know it will strike a chord with journalists everywhere.

Readers will enjoy hearing how we suffer when things go wrong.

An old boss of mine used to say: "The man who never made a mistake is the man who never did anything."

That was as long as he was somehow implicated in whatever disaster we'd created.

If the mistake was entirely down to you and he was in the clear his language could get pretty incendiary.

Anyway, Ian's blog:

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