Showing posts with label ambiguity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ambiguity. Show all posts

Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Below the belt?

The BBC News website supplied a strangely ambiguous breadcrumb the other day:
The link led to a report under the headline:
This still doesn't entirely clarify the situation. Someone at the Beeb obviously realized that the headline was not entirely clear. By the next day, it had been changed to:
which is an improvement, though it's still not beyond doubt whose offensive weapon he was using…

For the curious, it turns out that
But why did she wait so long?