Journalists watch and listen to politicians extra carefully during campaigns, ever on the lookout for some sort of gaffe or misstep upon which to pounce mercilessly (see: Potato, spelling of).

Those same journalists, of course, never make errors themselves. It's a proven fact. Ask any of us.

Up until Saturday, anyway.

Astute viewers of my report from beautiful Harbour Grace, Nfld., about the spat between Stephen Harper and Premier Danny Williams might have noticed the backdrop to my standup looked an awful lot like a marina near the Vancouver airport.

This would've been reinforced somewhat by me happily talking about Harper's trip to BC apparently amid the squabbling with Williams, and by then signing off with the words. "Paul Hunter, CBC News, Richmond, British Columbia".

Yes that's right.

Sadly, in the scramble of the editing moment, there was a boo boo and the wrong standup became stuck on, in this case an old one from a week ago. And no one noticed until it was too late.

We fixed it for the next airing. But it could have been worse. As Stephen Harper's press secretary Dimitri Soudas later pointed out, I'd spent much of the summer sending standups with a sign-off from Kandahar.

—Paul Hunter