From the Archive: Originally published Apr 19, 2004 on the old Firefox/Pinstripe-era blog.

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Tweaking the Tone

Kevin Apr 19, 2004

A look at the history of a BBC News article provided by my RSS aggregator. Each of the three items in the image below link to the same article.

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Update: Josh pointed out that the headline changed *again*. Now it reads “US chides Spain for Iraq pull-out”. Up next: “US gently cautions Spain not to track mud across its nice clean floor”.

Comments

Josh on 2004-04-19 15:13:34

It's changed again!

"US chides Spain for Iraq pull-out"

richie on 2004-04-24 23:16:53

this is almost as funny as when a news story on the beeb site got the meanings of "horizontal" and "vertical" hopelessly mixed up - wish i'd screen grabbed that one :)