Update to Times of London question

I just received the following from someone identifying himself as Mike Harvey of the Times of London, though it comes from a "Googlemail" address:

Dear Megan,

Your second guess in your blog post was the correct one.

The article on Steve Jobs's health was written and bylined by David
Rose but the passage you highlight was inserted by me at the last
moment just before publication. I added the paragraphs (and made a few
other editing changes) in the middle of writing another major piece
for the newspaper against a very tight deadline. (The perils of
writing for a London newspaper from the West Coast.)

It was done in a real hurry and I meant to put the proper attribution
in but failed to do so before I pinged the email off. It was a mistake
made in haste and my thanks to you for pointing it out. As a blogger
and technology writer I know the importance of sourcing and linking to
sources and rightly feel aggrieved when it does not happen.

The paragraphs are being removed for the avoidance of doubt.

all best wishes

Mike Harvey

There's also someone in the comments claiming to be David Rose, and castigating me on the grounds that it was a wire piece, but his IP address resolves to a German pharmaceutical company, and also, it wasn't a wire piece.  Curious what some people get up to.

Comments

Rob Lyman January 16, 2009 5:34 PM

There's also someone in the comments claiming to be David Rose

That was Yancy (the medicinal chemist, remember) posting an exact copy of an earlier comment by "Bob Woodward," real name unknown, as a sort of double-reverse satire.

Mike January 16, 2009 7:07 PM

Yancy? I thought it was Ben Domenech.

yip January 16, 2009 7:24 PM

"It was a mistake made in haste and my thanks to you for pointing it out."

That's the sort thing a man might say to his wife after he gets the babysitter pregnant, isn't it? Well, it worked for John Edwards, at least ....

Yancey Ward January 16, 2009 8:15 PM

This is hilarious!

Megan,

That was me making fun of the Woodward comment and the Times piece at the same time. Sometimes subtlety isn't always the right approach, I guess.

Richard January 16, 2009 9:24 PM

I am a American living in the Philippines and I have a Gmail address.

another_anon January 17, 2009 12:19 PM

"I am a American living in the Philippines and I have a Gmail address."

AFAIK, 'gmail' can't be used in the UK - somebody had been using it already. It's 'googlemail' there.