An error to bench the brilliant @maitlis.

[GoodTaste]

Does "An error to bench the brilliant @maitlis" mean "(It is) a mistake to ignore the brilliant @maitlis"?


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richard horton Retweeted
Matthew d'Ancona
@MatthewdAncona
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May 28
An error to bench the brilliant @maitlis. Absolutely nothing she said was incorrect. ⁦
@BBCNewsnight is a magazine programme, not a news bulletin. It is not a breach of impartiality to speak the truth incisively. This is no time to go wobbly.

 

[GoesStation]

"Bench" as a verb comes from sports: when the manager pulls a player off the field, the player walks to the sidelines and sits on the bench. The tweet tells me that a journalist with the Twitter handle "@maitlis" was removed from a magazine program. I imagine it's one of the many shows featuring a regular panel of journalists, one of whom was @maitlis.

So no, although the journalist's voice will no longer be heard, the verb doesn't mean "ignore".