BBC dumbo headlines on Soyuz

What is the matter with the BBC on their news home page today, they describe
the Soyuz as a shuttle and the launch site as a space station.

I wonder if they have had too many funny substances?

Brian

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On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 08:30:11 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

What is the matter with the BBC on their news home page today, they describe
the Soyuz as a shuttle and the launch site as a space station.

I wonder if they have had too many funny substances?

Brian

It may be just a case of small news outlets picking up BBC stories,
but Googling "Soyuz shuttle" turns up more occurrences than just that
one story.
I suppose that an operation that takes people there and brings people
back is a sort of shuttle service - a "small s" shuttle service of
course.

On Fri, 2 Apr 2010 15:32:59 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

The folk writing it seem to know so little about it I'm wondering why they
bothere really. It never used to be this way in the bbc.

Brian


Well at least they correct their mistakes - even if without
recognition of the error..
Go to the BBC now and you will find the story headed "Soyuz rocket
lifts off in Kazakhstan"
....the "Soyuz shuttle" has disappeared very discretely indeed.