Wednesday 24 March 2010

Exaggerated headline of the day:

The headline in The Metro says "SS assassin jailed for 1,944 murders" but if you read the article it says he "committed three murders".

4 comments:

dearieme said...

Is Al Gore writing their headlines?

Anonymous said...

Talk about misquoting. You've included a comma where there isn't one in the headline.

Or were you trying to be funny?

Nick von Mises said...

I spotted the comma too. Nice.

The Cowboy Online said...

I don't think it takes a genius, or even a read of the original story, to add 'SS assassin' to '1,944' and realise that's a year, with a superfluous comma, rather than the body count.

Do we use hashtags in comments?

#fail ;-)