Farringdon farago

Noam Chomsky offers some useful advice on how to manage an interview by the Guardian newspaper here. The original piece by Emma Brockes, which has since been attacked as a hatchet job, appears here. Unlike the print edition, the online version now starts with the following warning: "A note to readers: On November 2 the Guardian published a letter from Noam Chomsky in which he was strongly critical of the interview below. Subsequently Professor Chomsky complained to the readers' editor about the interview on a number of specific points. The readers' editor has been investigating the complaint and has been in direct correspondence with Professor Chomsky. The readers' editor will publish his findings when the matter is resolved." Readers' editor Ian Mayes is looking into it, but will he conclude by initiating an overhaul of the Guardian's official values, which include a dogmatic interpretation of past events in Bosnia (complete with heretics, such as Chomsky, to persecute)? Unlikely. Maybe Brockes should stick to asking "Is Hermione too pretty? The burning question as fans greet Potter stars"

The controversy is also examined here, by another so-called 'revisionist', Diana Johnstone.