How many recruits is a typo worth?
[ by Charles Cameron — how do you measure the potential cost in human lives of something as nebulous as a typo, a slip of the tongue, some idiot clip from a movie that only a dozen people ever saw before it reached YouTube and was widely broadcast on Egyptian TV? ]
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Here are two images of a Daily Mail (UK) headline, as it first appeared, and as subsequently corrected:
Here’s my question:
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many new recruits to the jihad — and how many human lives, ours, theirs and total — is a typo worth?
Come to think of it, who gets the hate — the Israelis, the Brits, ISAF, the US, whoever’s irritating and nearby?
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Where I got this from:
Hat tip: Islamophobia Watch
Original source: The Daily Mail