{"id":16293,"date":"2012-10-29T22:53:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16293"},"modified":"2012-10-29T22:53:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:53:28","slug":"how-many-recruits-is-a-typo-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16293","title":{"rendered":"How many recruits is a typo worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; 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? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two images of a Daily Mail (UK) headline, as it first appeared, and as subsequently corrected:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPEC-Daily-Mail.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPEC-Daily-Mail.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"SPEC Daily Mail\" width=\"597\" height=\"620\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPEC-Daily-Mail.png 597w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SPEC-Daily-Mail-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my question:<\/p>\n<p>If a picture is worth a thousand words, <strong>how many new recruits to the jihad<\/strong> &#8212; and how many human lives,  ours, theirs and total &#8212; <strong>is a typo worth<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, who gets the hate &#8212; the Israelis, the Brits, ISAF, the US, whoever&#8217;s irritating and nearby?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Where I got this from: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hat tip<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2224554\/Israels-dry-run-strike-Iran-Two-killed-jets-bomb-Sudanese-rockets-factory.html\">Islamophobia Watch<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Original source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2224554\/Israels-dry-run-strike-Iran-Two-killed-jets-bomb-Sudanese-rockets-factory.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; 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? ] . Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,794,753,139,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-feedback-loops","category-islam","category-media","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16293"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16392,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16293\/revisions\/16392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}