The dangers of watching news channels with the sound down I glanced up at the newsroom tv this morning to see News 24's breaking news strap declaring 'Hussain Reprieve - death sentence commuted'. This led me to automatically jump to the mistaken conclusion that Saddam Hussein had been let off the hook (never mind the difference in spelling - news channels make typos all the time!). On further investigation, however, it became clear that this story was actually about the British man Tahir Hussain, who'd been on death row in Pakistan. It just goes to show that (1) it's a good job I wasn't reading the news today and (2) even inch-high letters sometimes aren't enough to get the message across.

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