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Funny how those headlines change...

Irony no. I see an editor waking up and realizing that the first headline was just dumb.

Barkhorn.
 
5:57 US Says Has Rushed Tanks to Iraq to End Violence

6:11 US Says Has Rushed Tanks to Iraq to Crush Rebels.
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Did the US say both?

If not, it seems to me that the second one shouldn't say "US Says..."

MattJ
 
aerocontrols said:



Did the US say both?

If not, it seems to me that the second one shouldn't say "US Says..."

MattJ
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Unless they have quotation marks, they're not quotes, they're paraphrases. And "the United States" can't say anything, as it's a country, not a person.
 
I like how news agencies think that when dealing with global affairs and different countries' policies on issues, the name of the country's capital city can be substituted for the name of the country. The United States, for example, becomes "Washington", and Russia becomes "Moscow". China becomes Beijing, Iraq used to be Baghdad, Madrid is backing out of the war, and Rome is lodging an official protest against Cairo, while Warsaw is locked into intense negotiations with Bucharest over the latest from Tokyo. Sure, we might understand all this, but recent test results show that our up-and-coming societal members aren't quite as good at geography.
 
"The Age" online occaisonally has stories that look interesting, and controversial. When you click on the link, there is nothing there. Apparently this happens when a story is posted by the Web Site guys, but the legal guys get on to it. You get to read the headline, but the link leads nowhere when you click on it.
 
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