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Thu 13 Jun 2002 7:21
by Kevin McGehee
in Coweta County, GA
[Media Ochre]
[blogoSFERICS]
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Yesterday's installment of OpinionJournal.com's "Best of the Web Today" contains some real howlers from Big Media's headline writers:
Headlines of the Day
"Bush Pledges Fight Against Evil," reads the headline on an dispatch by Ron Fournier, the Associated Press's White House correspondent. Tampa's TBO.com Web site, however, somehow included part of the byline in its headline, which reads: "Bush Pledges Fight Against Evil AP White House Correspondent."
A Reuters headline reads "Dutch PM to Bosnia: Don't Blame U.S. for Srebrenica." But the first paragraph of the article tells a different story:
Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok, who resigned over his country's failure to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre, told Bosnians on Tuesday they should blame Bosnian Serbs for the slaughter and not his people.
In other words, the headline should have read "Don't Blame Us," not "Don't Blame U.S." We guess the folks at Reuters are so used to blaming the U.S. for everything that this is an understandable mistake.
If you read James Taranto's daily digest regularly, or get it by e-mail, you already saw this. If you don't, why?
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