great moments in on-line publishing history

Posted: May 9th, 2007 ˑ Filled under: language, on-line, politics, spin ˑ  3 Comments

For a glorious, and no doubt brief, moment today, the International Herald Tribune displayed this uncannily accurate headline on one of it’s lead stories:

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The article is/was on-line here. Don’t you hate it when the media puts a spin on everything instead of just reporting the facts?

Update: thanks to the IHT things are also looking shite for Her Majesty on the front page of Google News:

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3 Comments

  1. erin wrote:
    May 9, 2007 at 11:25 am

    dammit. it has already been changed. :(

  2. Legal Eagle wrote:
    May 9, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    That’s awesome. Pity it has been changed.

  3. Paul wrote:
    May 10, 2007 at 4:31 pm

    Yep, I don’t imagine things like that would last too long – I’m sure more conscientious readers than I actually told them about it instead of laughing and taking screenshots. :) It reminds me of a few of the websites featured here.