Friday, March 30, 2012

Misleading headline of the week...

Another new Keeping Stock award, and today it goes to the APN sub-editor who came up with this:

Key denies backing $14m ACC bid


Now we realise that much sub-editing is now done off-shore. But surely someone would understand that the bid that John Key is denying any involvement in is a claim on a private insurer, and not ACC.

There's a very significant difference, and we hope that the Herald publishes a retraction; unless, of course, there's an agenda to deliberately mislead...

1 comment:

IHStewart said...

" But surely someone would understand that the bid that John Key is denying any involvement in is a claim on a private insurer, and not ACC."

You have to hand it to the cunning Mr Key I had no idea he was supporting the ACC bid until I read this. Thanks for clearing it up for me :)