The main headline on the BBC News website at the moment is:
The BBC is quoting a comment from the German police there.
The article continues:
We read in the 7th paragraph that:
(We don't, however, read that he apparently shouted that at people calling him a "****ing Turk" and a "****ing foreigner").
In the next paragraph we read a witness claim that:
Readers who haven't been following the news might well have been assuming by this stage that the killer was another Breivik.
In the 20th paragraph, however, we learn something that suggests he might not be a far-right German white supremacist after all:
...and most other news sites have been reporting for some time now that the gunman's name is Ali David Sonboly.
The motives of the German police for making the Breivik connection here will doubtless come under close scrutiny at time passes. The motives of the BBC for seizing on such a comment and making it their main online headline are also open to question, especially as the connection appears to be tenuous (the date? the apparent interest in guns?).
The motives of the German police for making the Breivik connection here will doubtless come under close scrutiny at time passes. The motives of the BBC for seizing on such a comment and making it their main online headline are also open to question, especially as the connection appears to be tenuous (the date? the apparent interest in guns?).
