No, The Times didn't commit murder

Lynn Truss’s book Eats, Shoots and Leaves was about erroneous meaning conveyed by mistakes in grammar and punctuation.

Here’s a headline from today’s The Times, which is a perfect illustration. Your immediate understanding on reading it is that the Chief Justice has declared the newspaper responsible for a murder, rather than finding it to have acted responsibly when reporting the murder.

The Times, Wednesday, 31st December 2008

Chief Justice finds The Times was responsible in murder case report