Friday, March 09, 2007

speaking of standards

Mogadishu is the new Belfast (onemorehandbag) Accuracy's not really my favourite newspaper's forte: in today's issue, a short article on parliamentary elections in Northern Ireland reveals that either their African correspondent covers the British isles as well or someone at the Standard is under the assumption that Mogadishu is the capital of Northern Ireland...

2 Comments:

Blogger johannes said...

the renaissance of the british commonwealth empire, i guess... never thought that "der standard" would go colonial (^^)

3/10/2007 10:13:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How very, very odd. I'm guessing it was a copy/paste error -- but I'm surprised it didn't catch someone's eye.

3/13/2007 11:09:00 AM  

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