Couldn’t get past the pig
According to Alex Au, both The Straits Times and the Ministry of Health made a mistake on the front page of The Sunday Times.
“Both the newspaper and the Health Ministry were misled by the convenient use of the name “swine flu” when referring to a new type of flu. Relying on that name, the ministry regurgitated irrelevant stuff about a pig disease - and the reporter obviously didn’t spot the problem - when the news story was about “a new version of the A/H1N1 flu virus, which is a combination of bird, pig and human viruses” – words from the front page article itself.”
