Escape from crash - body blow to transplant patients
In June this year a helicopter carrying four passengers crashed in forest in Far North Queensland. A photo of the crash site with the caption “Escape from Disaster” was featured on the front page of the Brisbane “Courier Mail”. All well and good. But below this photo (which had a brief description of the miraculous survival of all four passengers) was the headline “BODY BLOW - Transplant patients miss out on organs”
Now, perhaps it’s just me but this particular front page, at first glance, seemed a trifle … wrong. You see the story it seemed to convey was of eager transplant patients lusting after the organs of victims of a helicopter crash only to have their hopes dashed when it was revealed that no one had actually died.
That kind of interpretation would, in fact, be typical of the writing in the Courier Mail. Anyway, check out the PDF and see what you think. Am I way off target here?