"Exclusive" Re: Mark Shuttleworth [Ubuntu Linux] on BBC (mp3 available)

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Sat Oct 28 20:30:26 EDT 2006


>   Are they trying to say they have
> an exclusive interview and that Mark Shuttleworth isn't granting such
> an interview to others?  Or is Gareth Mitchell really not going to
> talk to anyone else at all ?

I've noticed a number of media outlets using a weakened form of
"exclusive", among them BBC Radio. These days "exclusive" apparently
only means "not recorded at a news conference" or "the only ones
talking to him TODAY".

It's a good interview in spite of the advertising copy.

-- 
Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com


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