Sunday, February 12, 2006
"READ MY STORY!"
Sometimes the press in an effort to attract attention to it's particular telling of a story will stoop a bit. I think I have found a really great example.
The archeology news from Egypt this past week was way cool, they found an undisturbed tomb! The first story I found on it was Rueters
Anyway, the next morning I came across the BBC story, headlined this way:
WOW! I figured during my night, their day, they dug a little farther and found it was a royal tomb. Glittering gold goodies here we come! Then I read on
Could this be hyperbole in pursuit of eyeballs on a story they were behind on? We report, you decide.
Related Tags: BBC, Rueters, Valley of the Kings, tomb, pharoah, reporting, headlines, archaeology, new find
The archeology news from Egypt this past week was way cool, they found an undisturbed tomb! The first story I found on it was Rueters
The Valley of the Kings in southern Egypt contains the tombs of most of the pharaohs of the time but the archaeologist said the mummies in the newly found tomb need not be royal.This is a very significant find, if not a "rich" on in the sense that being non-royal it will not be full of gold and so forth. Personally, I like stuff like that. Everytime I visit a museum and know what happened to 'King XXX' I wonder what happened to 'schub yyy' that herded cattle everyday.
Anyway, the next morning I came across the BBC story, headlined this way:
WOW! I figured during my night, their day, they dug a little farther and found it was a royal tomb. Glittering gold goodies here we come! Then I read on
Four metres below the ground was a single chamber containing sarcophagi with coloured funerary masks and more than 20 large storage jars bearing Pharaonic seals.That, by the way, is buried way deep in the story - towards the end. And that alone is the justification for the use of the term 'Pharaonic' in the headline, otherwise it's the same story I had read 16 hours earlier.
Could this be hyperbole in pursuit of eyeballs on a story they were behind on? We report, you decide.
Related Tags: BBC, Rueters, Valley of the Kings, tomb, pharoah, reporting, headlines, archaeology, new find
