A propaganda chief who'd parachuted in from Beijing had meddled so crudely with a routine editorial that he triggered a revolt among editors and reporters.
It is understood that Helen Boaden, the director of BBC News, was made aware of the Newsnight investigation as part of routine editorial procedures.
"That the Times is still essentially the same paper seems to me so plainly the case as to refute the word 'new' in 'the new, faster-format Los Angeles Times.' What small novelty there is would have received very little promotion had it begun as a routine editorial modification.
They are unstructured and are denoted by TCM doctors without the support of authoritative editorial board in their routine diagnostic work.
"When we published Dr. Henschke's article in 2006 it was not routine NEJM editorial policy to publish details about pending patents," stated the letter, dated October 1, 2008.
In 2014, a Lancet editorial made the case for routine childhood MenB vaccination (with no reference to age) based on two main arguments: its high morbidity and mortality, and the fact that it is difficult to diagnose in time to save children, as its initial symptoms are similar to common and relatively benign viral infections.
In the editorial they touch on the routines they developed forty years ago, using them to illustrate the "challenge and the opportunity that comedy about race faces today". We figured that if we were going to make comedy out of a black man and a white man sharing the same stage, it would have to be equal-opportunity comedy.
In those days, dwelling on the indecencies of the Soviet system was routine for Western politicians and editorial writers in most newspapers.
Under a routine devised to preserve the BBC's editorial control, Stickler was being seconded to Newsnight to work it up as a BBC project under the supervision of acting editor Liz Gibbon.
He would erupt like a volcano if he felt the editorial department was becoming complacent or falling into a dull routine.
However, the accompanying editorial (Brennan, 2000) raised several appropriate still unanswered questions: 'Is routine physician-directed follow-up justified if 50% of relapses are detected between regular visits?
