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Sky News headline titled "Irish Terror Threat Raised to 'Substantial'

  • 25-09-2010 1:30am
    #1
    kraggy
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    Anyone else spot this when it broke?

    This in itself is a problem for me.

    But worse still, is the fact that, minutes before they had this displayed on their website, they had 'Irish threat raised to substantial' or something similar.

    Note the difference between 'Irish threat' and 'Irish Terror Threat'. Subtle but significant difference. It is like they had a rush of sensationalist blood to the head and the chief editor came in and said 'Actually, we better not go with the first line and we better change it to something else'.

    Anyone else spot this at the time? It all happened in the space of about 5 minutes.

    Disgraceful.


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  • #2
    Corsendonk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    kraggy wrote: »
    Anyone else spot this when it broke?

    This in itself is a problem for me.

    But worse still, is the fact that, minutes before they had this displayed on their website, they had 'Irish threat raised to substantial' or something similar.

    Note the difference between 'Irish threat' and 'Irish Terror Threat'. Subtle but significant difference. It is like they had a rush of sensationalist blood to the head and the chief editor came in and said 'Actually, we better not go with the first line and we better change it to something else'.

    Anyone else spot this at the time? It all happened in the space of about 5 minutes.

    Disgraceful.


    You actually watch Sky News? And browse their website?

    Its Sky News, of course its sensationlist, then they flog the story into the ground with poor reporting. There style hasn't changed since they started.


  • #3
    gurramok
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    It should read 'Dissident Republican threat', not Irish anything. All the media here including UTV and the Guardian did not headline it as an Irish terror threat but used the dissident threat line as a headline instead.

    BBC & Sky used Irish terror threat as the headline. Offensive words against the Irish nation labeling us all as terrorists. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056042481


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