The trouble is that these days, fandom and "officialdom" are interminably linked, at least at the lower echelons of production.
I happen to work for the BBC (nowhere near Doctor Who, I'll readily add), and I've noticed in the past that a couple of idle wild speculations that I've uttered with my fandom hat on are then worked up to a frenzy to a point when they're reported as fact by "a friend of mine who works for the BBC". Which is, to say the least, annoying.
And as we all know, journalists often resort to making up stories about the next Doctor Who/James Bond/James Bond plotline simply because it's an undeniable story, and one that nobody has a particular interest in shooting down.
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Date: 2009-01-07 12:45 pm (UTC)I happen to work for the BBC (nowhere near Doctor Who, I'll readily add), and I've noticed in the past that a couple of idle wild speculations that I've uttered with my fandom hat on are then worked up to a frenzy to a point when they're reported as fact by "a friend of mine who works for the BBC". Which is, to say the least, annoying.
And as we all know, journalists often resort to making up stories about the next Doctor Who/James Bond/James Bond plotline simply because it's an undeniable story, and one that nobody has a particular interest in shooting down.