Correction / deletion
25 October 2004. Inspired by .
Charlie Brooker's column in The Guide last week seems to have got a lot of people in a froth - so much so that he's had to apologise.
What's slightly odd is that The Guardian has also removed the piece from its website.
The fuss is about his end line, a slight remix of something I saw in graffiti on the streets here last year (top left).
But, having printed the (unusually political and possibly libellous) piece, they've now expunged it from the online archives rather than just, say, adding the apology at the bottom of the piece. "Some readers were offended," they seem to be saying. "So just in case, we've taken it out."
Which, as a Guardian reader who wants to make up his own mind, offends me a bit, too.
(I got hold of it from elsewhere and can email it to anyone who missed it, if you ask nicely.)