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The Guardian television review on July 27th began:
Remember supergroups? Like Cream - with Eric Clapton, Ginger Rogers and Jack Bruce. Well The Nightmares Next Door (Channel 4) is a bit like that - super-reality TV

Ah, yes, Cream: the band whose drummer did it in high heels, and backwards.

(Thanks to the miracle of the internet, Ginger Baker has been reinstated in the on-line text of this review).

ETA that by a pleasing piece of synchronicity, Neil Gaiman has been discussing the merits of the press's practice of removing evidence of past errors. He is forgiving towards those who try to obliterate past errors:
It's definitely a good thing that online journalism is capable of revising itself to agree with reality, although it's going to puzzle the hell out of all the people in the future who click on the links to the BBC page and are unable to discover what they're meant to be outraged about.

but some of his readers disagree.

In fairness to the Guardian, they do run a (very entertaining) Corrections and Clarifications column, and corrections are frequently appended to the online report, rather than insinuated into the text, as happened here.

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