Yes. I'd read your post yesterday and it stuck with me. Needling demands made of Corbyn continued on into today though he'dWillow904 wrote:The following from Andrew Sparrow's blog is really interesting:I listened to that entire interview yesterday and came away with the impression Corbyn had repeatedly insisted he wasn't going to make any seat predictions. I later read everywhere that Corbyn had said Labour wouldn't lose any seats and was confused as to where this had come from, to the point I commented on it here. The point I'm making is that if it was clear to me what Corbyn meant to say and appeared to be saying, how did journalists manage to not hear all the times he wouldn't be drawn but confidently reported the one mis-spoken sentence when he seemed to contradict himself without even double checking if they had heard it correctly? Surely it would be more factual to report him refusing to make predictions then point out he seemed to slip up and make a prediction after all. Instead this small snippet was reported as the entire gist of what he said, without context and, I believe, without quotation marks, as fact. No wonder I was so confused.There was some confusion after PMQs about Jeremy Corbyn’s statement on Tuesday that: “We are not going to lose seats, we are looking to gain seats where we can.”
Asked whether he really meant this, an aide to the leader said Corbyn may have been “slightly misinterpreted”, adding that “what he said was that he said he would make no predictions about the number of seats to be won or lost.”
That assertion was challenged by the Daily Mirror’s political editor, who pointed out that Corbyn had clearly said Labour was “not going to lose seats”.
Corbyn’s aide clarified that the leader said in his previous sentence and elsewhere on many occasions that he was not going to make predictions about gains and losses.
Asked whether Corbyn had misspoken, the spokesman said: “I’m telling you what he intended to say. He was saying we are not in the business of losing seats.”
made clear initially he wasn't making predictions. It's culminated into media's overwrought spurious garbage thrown up out of
context. The reporting on this isn't funny, unintentional or minor.
