Sorry, I was distracted from packing to spot this strange headline on the BBC web-page:
Why have they put most of that in inverted commas, as if it’s not true or somehow qualified or in doubt?
The BBC’s own article on the subject reports a State Department announcement saying that indeed this ambassador’s visa has been revoked in respopnse to the Chavez regime’s denying a visa to their new ambassador. A pretty reliable if not authoritative source?
New Year Quiz fun! Here are three more inverted comma BBC headlines from the current web-page, plus three where I have added the extra punctuation. See if you can guess which are the BBC ones and which mine:
- ‘Slower fall’ in Iraqi killings
- Sri Lanka ‘bans BBC’ again at panel
- N Korea ‘steps up special forces’
- Perez burial dispute ‘resolved’
- Spain to ‘increase’ minimum wages
- US worker ‘freed’ from Haitian jail
Sigh.
Back to the packing boxes…
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