Marr gets it wrong

Andrew Marr has managed to upset Sky News in his evidence to a House Of Lords committee

This from Telegraph co.uk

Giving evidence to the House of Lords Communication Committee, Mr Marr also took a swipe at Sky News, BBC TV's principal news competitor. He faintly praised Sky by suggesting that it was only "frequently right".
"I do think (the BBC is) different and we have to stay different," he told the committee.
"This is most acute in the age of 24-hour news because the desperate journalistic desire to be first is felt so intensely.
"Our main competitor, Sky News, always trumpets that it is first with this, first with that.
"Well, we are the BBC and we have to be sure that we are right. We must not, therefore, get into the culture of first with this, first with everything - first and frequently right."

Oops as Adrian Monck points out

Lest Marr forget, on July 7, 2005 it was Sky News, with their refusal to slavishly accept the official line, who told Londoners what was really going on in the capital, whilst the Corporation steadfastly regurgitated what it was told.

And let us not forget whilst still the political reporter at the BBC,he reported from outside Downing Street after Baghdad had fallen

"Tony Blair,said they would be able to take Baghdad without a bloodbath, and that in the end the Iraqis would be celebrating. And on both of those points he has been proved conclusively right. And it would be entirely ungracious, even for his critics, not to acknowledge that tonight he stands as a larger man and a stronger prime minister as a result."