Copy Editors Asleep At the Wheel
December 28, 2010 22:43 by BackSpin EditorUPDATE 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.
Jessica
7:17 pm
Dec 29, 2010
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.
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