Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/suspect_seized/
ITV challenges Beeb for cheap innuendo crown
'Butt seized by terror police'
Posted in Bootnotes, 12th May 2008 09:39 GMT
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It appears ITV is not prepared to take the BBC's challenge [1] for the schoolboy innuendo headline crown lying down, and on Saturday offered up its pitch [2] for the title:
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Not bad, but aficionados of the genre will, of course, see that ITV has missed a trick here in not rendering this as "Terror police grab Butt". We direct its leader writers to this classic [4] for pointers in how to raise their game. ®