Saturday, September 01, 2007
SOMETIMES A ROCKET IS JUST A ROCKET
An ABC headline:
Rocket kills 10 Afghan civilians
Thereafter follows this story: “At least 10 civilians were killed when rockets fired by the Taliban at a US-led military base in eastern Afghanistan fell short and landed on their homes, officials said.” But look at the ABC’s initial headline, noted by alert reader Kaboom and helpfully preserved by Google (and by the ABC itself):
US rocket kills 10 Afghan civilians
Question for the ABC: why was the weapon’s source not identified in the corrected headline?