Saturday, August 30, 2008

I Hate Newspaper Editors

Headline on UK Times Online:

Kremlin announces that South Ossetia will join 'one united Russian state'

Second paragraph of that artivle:

Tarzan Kokoity, [South Ossetia]’s Deputy Speaker of parliament, announced that South Ossetia would be absorbed into Russia soon so that its people could live in “one united Russian state” with their ethnic kin in North Ossetia.

It seems to me like the headline misrepresents the basic facts of the article.