Killer misquote

An article last week by Peter Godwin was headlined ‘I once thought of killing Ian Smith. Now I think he was misunderstood’. We wrongly used quotation marks suggesting these were the author’s words. They were not. Godwin believes Smith’s policies were a major contributing factor to Zimbabwe’s present crisis. A caption to the same piece described Smith ‘getting to grips with a Gatling gun’; it was a Vickers gun. Link

This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on December 3, 2007 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.
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  1. Baylink
    Posted December 4, 2007 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

    Gatling hasn’t been a *brand* of gun in quite some time but a type of gun.

    I suspect Vickers might manufacture the sort of rotating multi-barrel automatic rifle called a Gatling gun…

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