What They Say V. What They Mean ...

[andy-hughes]

This is an excellent example of a headline being used to grab attention, while not being strictly accurate in its meaning -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-30026416

The statement says that the son 'Used father's body parts as TV Stand' which calls to mind the exploits of Ed Gein -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein

and a gruesome image of a TV stand constructed from bones.

The reality is far more dull - the man collected dismembered body parts in plastic containers, and stacked the containers with a TV on top, which is not the same thing at all - he could have used empty containers to achieve the same effect.

So the headline - which is certainly attention-grabbing - is actually factually innacurate.

Should we not be able to expecrt better from the BBC?

[anotheoldgit]

'TV stand' is in Apostrophes Andy.

[andy-hughes]

That may be true AOG, but that does not mean that the statement is not patently untrue - it is.

It states that the man used body parts to make a TV stand, or make a 'TV stand' if you prefer.

Patently he did not - he used plastic storage boxes, the content of which is irrelavent, and indeed, would function with no content at all.

[B00]

"A neighbour who lived below noticed a "pink liquid" dripping through his bathroom ceiling."

That bit made my tummy go all funny :-(

[Gromit]

The headline is clearly misleading, and is not the standard we expect from the BBC.

[ludwig]

News websites do this alot.

It's a deliberate tactic to make you click on as many links as possible. so you'll see things like 'My wild night in a Paris brothel with a space alien', and it'll actually be a story about someone having their lawnmower fixed.