Wednesday, October 27, 2010

dumbing down

33 minutes after publishing this story



the headline was changed to





Who'd have thought it? The Granudian? Maybe it thought the readers couldn't understand what vertebrate meant?

6 comments:

Roue le Jour said...

For indeed the spineless shall inherit the earth.

Barking Spider said...

The politicians should be safe then, Widders! ;-)

Xanthippa said...

Watch for the 'bio-diversity' meme: mark my words, before we know it, 'they' will be introducing 'bio-diversity credits' the same way as 'carbon credits'.....

JuliaM said...

There was a story in the 'Mail' yesterday that referred to a woman stabbed by her partner - 'in her tummy'.

I nearly dropped my iPhone on the train floor, I was laughing so hard...

BenS said...

Shouldn't that be 'faces'?

Well, yes, the Grauniad...

David Cameron said...

What's a back-bone?