14/12/2006

At least it's not about Christmas

It's about the Mail's other favourite topic instead, asylum seekers (seems I was hasty in thinking the paper had dropped the references, although they have gone down).

Anyway, this will be a quick one. Hurrah! The article is 'Asylum seekers escape after dozy guards allowed a cigarette break'.

Right there in the opening sentence/paragraph is this:
A failed asylum seeker is on the run after escaping deportation when he was allowed off a coach heading for the airport to have a cigarette.
So it's just one then. The headline makes it sound like it could be loads. It's not as masterful as making 100 look like 3,000 but it's still fibbing. The question is, can the Mail and the Express ever tell the truth in their headlines?

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