BBC - CNN = 866

Here is the BBC transcript of Hans Blix’s presentation to the UN security council.

Here is the CNN transcript of the same presentation.

The difference? About 866 words.

I guess they didn’t think all that stuff about Iraq’s moves towards compliance wasn’t very important and that’s why they left all those bits out.

Update:

CNN have changed their version. Here’s a cached version, thanks to Google.

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Previously on this day

18 years ago I wrote New and improved

The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed a few changes here in the "Journal" section of adactio.