Unfortunate journalism
21 May 2005The Sydney Morning Herald has had a series of rather unfortunate snippets published of late. I found them immensely amusing (perhaps I’m just childish), and thought I’d share two.
From the article Six stranded on Luna Park ride, the closing paragraph reads thus:
“That accident was believed to have been caused by a cap which blew off a passenger’s head and caught in the Mad Mouse’s car wheels.”
Just for the record, no-one was injured in this incident – It’s just a crap sentence.
And then there was this headline (probably by now ubiquitous due to syndicated news services – this one was from AP) — “Probe ordered into Saddam underwear photos.” I’ll leave the misreading of this to the reader… again, maybe I’m just childish!
UPDATE: The Saddam headline didn’t make it to the next edition’s print, but no such qualms were had about printing the last paragraph of the Luna Park article… ahhh, journalists.