On-line journalism quality in "fact checking crisis"

Just because Trainspotting isn't about trainspotting, it doesn't mean it didn't introduce the world to trainspotting. Maybe people thought "This film is very very bad indeed. Even going out into the drizzly rain and writing down numbers we see on trains would be better than this. Let's go."

Bloody italics.

bold statement dg, in italics or not. don't get me wrong, trains rule in many ways. there is even a thread to this effect in the recent past, but surely making a good *film* about trainspotting (i can't do italics, some greater than less than backslash effort i don't doubt) is quite a challenge.

point taken though re the bbc article: in precisely what way is it supposed to have helped. sarcasm right? but the context blows it a bit, i dunno, sloppy writing perhaps.

Apropos to nothing: I remember when Trainspotting first came out, I thought it was about those people who sit down and write down train numbers and my thought was, "Why would anyone make a movie about that?"

I remember also telling my Dad about trainspotting. His reaction: "British people are weird."