Thursday 4 May, 2006

Short headlines can be misleading

Filed under: BBC blunders

As I've mentioned before, the BBC often shortens an article's title when surfacing so that it fits neatly into its allotted space on the section homepage. In this example however, the surfaced title and the actual title are the same:

US denies terror suspect torture

Was he asking to be tortured, with the US withholding this right?

The layout over content argument isn't the reason here; it's merely a case of shoddy journalism.


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