Misleading Reporting

[jomifl]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35075642
This BBC website article stated that a fake blender exploded. It was in fact a blender not a fake blender but it was a counterfeit blender ...and it didn't explode,.what is the BBC coming to :-).

[TheChair]

Misleading Posting.
Actually the article says "Fake Nutribullet explodes". Although a link to the article does say "fake blender".

[mikey4444]

Not sure what point you are trying to make jomifl !

The blender was counterfeit and the BBC article was trying to warn people about buying counterfeit goods. Most people would have understood fake and counterfeit to mean the same thing in this instance.

Not really sure what was misleading !

[jomifl]

It didn't explode..and it was counterfeit not fake as stated in the article. I know it mentioned that it was counterfeit but elswhere it was decribed as being fake,but it wasn't fake as it was a blender.

[mikey4444]

The difference between fake and counterfeit is only of interest to pedants.

Its quite clear what the BBC link is about ,and we should appluad them for raising and publicising the issue.

[hc4361]

The article states it did explode.

[Peter Pedant]

hey Jommy

you cut your teeth on 'a false sense of security' - the sense isnt false - its real ! it is just ....

Sparrow warden of all souls said once - Litter bins should not be named for litter - but ( because once in, it is tidy ) so it should be: what would belitter if it werent placed here....

Philosophers - shoot them
they have taken us into more wars than well the pope has

[Peter Pedant]

// The difference between fake and counterfeit is only of interest to pedants. //

Hey Mikey explains why I was chipping in my two penny worth ......

[Peter Pedant]

just thought -

the arabic for counterfeit is taqlid -

and if someone ran around with a wooden cut out of a kalashnikov
along with shouts of "terroristen taqlid" do you think he would explode before he died from the hail of police bullets ?

and how would the Beeb report it ?

Funny Sunday today ....

[jomifl]

/you cut your teeth on 'a false sense of security' - the sense isnt false - its real ! it is just ...
The idea of having a language is that there is a consensus of opinion on the meaning of words, otherwise you just end up with what appears to be giibberish.