Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Write headlines with care

Just too many wrong connotations from this RTE headline today:

Aid body head kidnapped in Iraq

[UPDATE: RTE has now changed the headline, though not apparently because of its dreadful phrasing, but because of the new detail that the kidnap victim, at first considered to be British, is an Irish citizen. This opens up the same can of worms as the belated citizenship for Ken Bigley -- namely the belief that being seen as Irish is somehow beneficial despite the Republic's obvious (for anyone who bothers to look) cooperation with the US military operations in Iraq.]

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