Now will you believe I don’t write the headlines?
Near-miss asteroid could have wiped out Greater London area says the headline over the story I wrote about Toutatis missing the Earth, as expected.
What I actually wrote, and what appears, is: Had Toutatis hit the Earth, it would have had the explosive impact of a one million megaton bomb, many times the total nuclear arsenal of the superpowers, and destroyed all life on the planet.
Two paragraphs above, it says: But astronomers warned that there are potentially thousands of much smaller objects that could devastate an area as large as the M25 region..
Many people think journalists write the headlines on their stories. I hope this puts a stake through that idea, once and for all.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Annual piracy figures from the IFPI: yes, but what do they prove? (24 June 2005; score: 32.74%)
- "UK teenagers prefer IM to text" - except they don't (17 November 2004; score: 28.99%)
- Oh, and don't tell anyone till tomorrow, but that's the last NDA I'll sign (12 December 2005; score: 27.96%)
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September 30th, 2004 at 4:46 pm
Ok, so who wrote ‘Now will you believe I don’t write the headlines?’ then?
:-D