Newspaper Clangers
There is a really awful clanger in today’s Sunday Times, normally the epitome of correctness. Well, perhaps never quite as up-market as The Times, but for a Sunday newspaper, not too sensationalist.
In today’s paper there’s a horrifying story about a three-month old baby who was mauled to death by pet dogs. The baby was being looked after for the night by his grandmother, but at about midnight was attacked and killed by the dogs, a Staffordshire bull terrier and a Jack Russell. And here’s the appalling clanger.
The paper says (I kid you not):
Wilson (the grandmother) was later taken to the same hospital suffering from shock. Yesterday she was being interviewed by police while the boy’s parents were being comforted by detectives. The couple, who are in their thirties, married just over a year ago and live a mile away.
They were taken to a local veterinary surgery where they were destroyed.
Surely that must rank amongst one of the most insensitives glitches in living memory?
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