Living together | Dec 01, 2005 10:19
Russell Brown's
Hard News
I was hoping the Herald would change the
headline on a story about the West Auckland stabbings that
went up on its website yesterday afternoon - Stabbing latest
in series of attacks by psychiatric patients - because it
was frankly misleading...
http://publicaddress.net/default,2749.sm
ENDS
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