Title deflation
Nov. 30th, 2011 02:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethLots of headlines about the 24 hour strike today. On the BBC at the moment there's a curious thing happening to the numbers. The My Yahoo news feed says Thousands on strike over pensions, though the headline on the webpage is "Tens of thousands in England on strike", but the very first line says it's about "More than one million public sector workers in England". Another Yahoo page link says Up to two million set to strike, though again the on page headline is different, "Public sector strike set to be largest for a generation", which is sort of noncommital as to absolute size since at least a generation presumably don't know how big that strike was.
Okay, so, it's big. But the headlines appear to be having an order of magnitude problem.
And it seems to me that the more people are likely to see a version, the less people it says are involved in the strike.
Okay, so, it's big. But the headlines appear to be having an order of magnitude problem.
And it seems to me that the more people are likely to see a version, the less people it says are involved in the strike.