Wall St shambles

Monkey's apology of the day comes from Newsnight editor Peter Barron, over a small, how you say . . . snafu with its nightly market update. "On Thursday we reported that in New York the 'Dow Jones was substantially down amidst more credit crunch fears'", blogs Barron. "That's odd, many of you told us, as - being Thanksgiving - Wall Street's finest were on a day off. Our economics editor Stephanie Flanders was mortified - 'unforgivable and embarrassing' was her verdict." Never mind, Peter, there's a first time for everything. Oh, hang on. There's more. "This is, I am ashamed to say, not the first time we have made such a mistake. The markets information is almost always the last thing we do on Newsnight and in the scramble of a particularly lively programme last night we neglected to notice that the US markets were shut and blithely reported the day before's figure. I'm sorry and I'm determined this won't happen again." There's only one solution - scrap it and replace it with the weather.