The Herald Sun: Just a ‘Joke’
The other day, the Herald Sun ran a story about Connex’s idea to take out some of the seats on Melbourne’s trains to cram in more commuters. Luckily, that isn’t the point.
The headline they ran with the story read:
Train plan a ‘third world’ joke
Alright. That’s a terrible headline, for a whole host of reasons. I think we can all be angry at the official that unfavorably labeled a plan to put more Melburnian commuters on our trains as ‘Third World.’ I can think of a myriad of reasons why that’s offensive.
Not the least of which is that no one appears to have said it.
Ted Baillieu, leader of the opposition, is credited with the ‘joke’ comment, but no one in the article is quoted as using the words ‘third’ and ‘world’ at all.
The question then becomes whether the Herald Sun is using an unattributed quote or one they just completely made up.
For bonus points, they use the ‘quote’ in the lede as well.
Largest circulation in Australia…
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March 25th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Yep, quality newspaper that one!
The Herald-Sun is the “Today Tonight” of the newspaper world.