Well, well, well. It seems that the Guardian, the self-proclaimed bastion of ‘clarity and imagination’, has been acting rather censoriously of late. It transpires that, in a column navigating the world’s great whiskies by wine critic Henry Jeffreys, a reference to an Israeli single malt whisky was first removed from the print copy – before subsequently being deleted from the online version. How very curious.
Taking to Twitter to point out the baffling omission, Jeffreys posted a screenshot showing which clearly showed his reference to Israel’s M&H beverage. ‘Even so, world whisky isn’t going away any time soon,’ the wine critic had written. ‘The best offer something unique: Israel’s M&H, for example, ages its whisky in old pomegranate wine casks in the heat of the Dead Sea.’
Yet now the online copy is distinctly different. It reads: ‘Even so, world whisky isn’t going away any time soon. The best offer something unique: Kyrö in Finland recently announced a sauna-aged whisky.’ How very bizarre.
It’s not the first time the Grauniad has made rather notable deletions after publication. Only last month, Steerpike revealed that the paper had removed a controversial 7 October review after it received backlash over its author’s suggestion the film had portrayed Gazans as ‘testosterone-crazed Hamas killers’. While it was certainly quite the take, the paper could have defended the publication of the piece – or acknowledged its flaws – and yet it seems this beacon of transparency opted for neither option.
Mr S has approached the newspaper for comment on the latest edit of Jeffreys’s piece, but the Guardian are yet to respond. Stay tuned…
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