Wednesday, September 13, 2006

War or Peace ?

Communication is an art --- and all too often misunderstandings from such , be they verbal, written or pictorial, can result in trouble .
Today I logged onto yahoo.com and read the following in their news headlines :-

'Pope invites dialogue with Muslims.'

I then logged onto yahoo.co.uk and read this :-

'Pope enjoys private time after slamming Islam '

Same language ie ) English .. but one is far from conducive to peace .

FOOTNOTE.
By 11:00pm yahoo.co.uk had changed their headline to :-
'Pope enjoys private time after criticising Islam '

I still wonder why not the same positive headline as yahoo.com , but am pleased that use of the word slamming has been dropped .
Maybe the fact that our pc's are scanned is useful after all.

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