Tuesday, June 2, 2009

annoying headline

from the nz herald

No NZers among 216 passengers on missing jet


well that's alright then, so long as it was only foreigners...

i know that this is a new thing; monty python satrised the british tendency to do this kind of thing in the seventies (and not the nine o'clock news did it again in the eighties)

it is irritating the way that papers need to have a local slant to try ands make it relevant for local readers

i remeber one headline that came out on september 12 2001 (kiwi slightly hurt in new york attack)

the irony is that print media is one of the most blatant signs of globalisation in the modern world. the herald is owned by an irishman (who is still in ireland), the sub editors are based in australia.

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