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Copy Editors Asleep At the Wheel
UPDATE December 29: Voice of America corrected the mistake. See VOA blogger Jessica Stahl's comment on this post.
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Ali Akbar Siadat, an Iranian political prisoner, was hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, accused of spying for Israel. I don't know if Siadat was Jewish, but this Voice of America headline inexplicably thinks he was Israeli.
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Thanks for catching that. It was definitely an error on our part - probably a case of trying to shorten a headline and going too far. We did correct it about an hour after the original version was published, and made clear that the man in question was actually Iranian.
Posted by: Jessica at Dec 29, 2010 7:17:13 PM
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