Truth be told, I could have gone on quite happily without being reminded of that repulsive (albeit spunky) bit of drollery.
Aww! Here I thought of it as some of my best work. Back to the drawing board I suppose.
I’m sorry - I thought you were being facetious. Apparently I was wrong.
Our argument turned on whether PBS is, in general, a respectable cite. Tom didn’t say anything about this. Instead, he said the PBS story wasn’t a primary source, a fact that we were already in agreement on.
I can only wonder what your email/PM/whatever to tom actually said. I’ve got a hunch you may have misrepresented the issue.