bbc 4.6.09 dc death malreported rectify

[qatarperegrine]

I apologize in advance for the tasteless nature of this post, but the larger issue interested me.

I happened to check BBC News this afternoon three minutes after they posted the story about David Carradine's death. The second paragraph read:

"Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and genitals on Thursday morning."

Within half an hour, that had changed to:

"Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and body on Thursday morning."

As I write this, it now reads:

"Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found naked by a hotel maid in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body."

I'm not sure if BBC is getting conflicting/updated reports or if they're just not sure how to handle the delicacies of the situation -- but it's a little alarming that the news can change without there even really being any record that it used to be different. Winston Smith lives!

Comments

[canyonwren.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I wonder if the first report was accurate. I'd been pondering an accidental death by misadventure, which although head-smacking dumb, sad and frustrating, sets the mind more at ease than suicide.

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

Aunty's RSS feeds are annoying for related reasons. Each appears twice in my LJ friends list, but updated stories often use different headlines with the original link.

[qatar.livejournal.com]

usericon WIN!

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

that's why we need people like you, to publicize the changes.

[(Anonymous)]

To quote some Pseudo-guru, "If life be sex, death be the orgasm." All too literal in this case, I suppose.
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