Next Pedrantry Target: The Daily Mail’s Snow Job

Sometimes it’s just too easy … I’m sitting here idly catching up on emails etc. (we’re in the midst of report cards) and enjoying @SaveRome’s photos of snowfall in the forum (via Twitter/Instagram), when suddenly I’m confronted with the Daily Mail‘s headline on the snowfall:

• Colosseum closes and drivers abandon cars as snow falls on Rome for the first time in 26 YEARS

… er, let’s look back a couple of years (almost to the day) when we had some nice photos of snow falling on the Colosseum:

• Snow Closes Sites in Rome

… which later was supplemented with Max Nelson’s (UWindsor) photos of snow falling through the oculus in the Pantheon (remember: these photos are a couple of years old …):

• Snow in Rome Redux

The Sun and Daily Mail should probably get together and have a review of how calendars and other assorted methods of reckoning time works …