>I'd know when to end it
I wonder if that is a function of the fact that there is a rather lot of web space to fill up. It's rather like those broadsheet Sunday papers that drop through the door and if you have a spare month or so, you can read, cover to cover and then wonder why you bothered.
I wonder how many people read much below the first or second paragraph of news stories? I tend to skim read, then go back and look again at the stories that interest me. I agree that the story has far too much "padding" and there are other gramatical errors which should not have got past the editor's eye but then it isn't every day that the BBC gets blown up, so they may have had an excuse to be otherwise engaged.
A friend who works in insurance made an interesting comment. He said, "When I read about insurance issues, I very rarely come across anything that is accurate so I tend to dismiss those reports. On the other hand, when I read about matters that I know much less about, I assume that the paper is correct".
