I don't know about you, but I read a lot of articles in the press in a sort of daze, more or less guessing the drift on the strength of the first few words and a certain basic knowledge of what's going on in the world.
That being so, I wonder if anyone has considered the possibility of hijacking a newspaper on its way to press and changing the odd word, with subversive intent. For example, very slightly adapted from the front page of Today's IHT:
Pope Benedict XVI's reputation is as a man of doctrinal hardness, who condones homosexuality and abortion...
From tonight's programme notes for BBC One:
Waking the Dead
Missing Persons. Part 1: When a woman defends her daughter from a mugger, it sets into motion a chain of events that places herself and her children in mortal danger. Moderate violence. (My italics).
"Was he violent with you?"
"Yes, but only moderately so."
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