Jeezus, Beeb, work on your headlines.
Oh well in that case maybe we care.
They must have thought again (or someone yelled at them), because if you click on the headline you get the story with a less narcissistic version…but the first one still appears in Top Stories.
Go back to headline school.
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And it isn’t even the focus on Canadians and Americans; the way the first headline is written makes it sound the the Canadians and the Americans were the ones who crashed the jet!
Looks like the Beeb has misplaced its priorities. Forget the Canadians and Americans: did the crash kill any transwomen?
I say! This just isn’t cricket! Is the BBC no longer British? There were seven British people on that flight, don’tcha know. Nationals before colonials if you please, Aunty.
Seriously, though, this might have been a misguided attempt to interest Americans and Canadians in the story, because an article about an African passenger plane crashing in Africa would mostly be greeted with a collective ‘Meh’.
Ha, iknklast, I thought the exact same thing.
AoS @ 3 – well I know but that was my point. Even if that is what they think it’s ugly to put it in a headline.
I suppose the headlines are adapted for different countries and this one was for the North American market or some such thing, but I don’t like it.
Ophelia, my mistake, I missed your ‘maybe we care’ line.
A professor at my school is among those killed:
https://newsroom.carleton.ca/2019/carleton-community-mourns-the-loss-of-prof-pius-adesanmi/
Oh, damn, Steve, he sounds remarkable.