Thought For The Day: Clive James

'To be the kind of newspaper writer who doctors fiction until it sounds like fact is to work a confidence trick. I admit that everything attributed to me by the Mirror journalist I did actually say in my BBC show, but he shifted the context by leaving out when and in what circumstances I said it. He thus turned one kind of fact into another kind of fact, which means he turned it into a fiction...  
'The journalists for the cheap press are uneasily aware that nobody cares much about what they say. Hence their sad conviction that they can say things any way they like, even if it means staging a man’s funeral for him just because he makes a few down-in-the-mouth remarks. Talk about getting the hearse before the horse.'

Clive James in the Telegraph on the Mirror's premature attempt to file his obituary.
In true tabloid-style, as he has cancer he became "Brave Clive James". 
The now notorious episode of Meeting Myself Coming Back is on Radio 4 tonight at 8pm.