Paper Monitor
13:32 UK time, Thursday, 16 July 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's an easy mistake to make for those who have never been to the Great Southern Land.
"Rescued after 12 days lost in the Outback" - Metro
Only it's not the Outback.
Londoner Jamie Neale, 19, survived for almost a fortnight after setting out for an ill-fated day trek in the Blue Mountains (pictured top right).
This is a national park west of Sydney. Australians call this "the bush". Which is different, very different, from the Outback (pictured lower right).
Here's how to tell the difference. Anything called "the bush" has lots of bushes, and trees as well. Whereas the Outback has just the one bush in all its thousands of miles of parched red sand. Or thereabouts.
Nor is Metro the only paper to make this mistake.
- Guardian
- Daily Star
- The Scotsman
- Irish Independent
And on Tuesday the London Evening Standard reported on how , complete with a photo of the actual Outback.
Only they, too, had been in the Blue Mountains. Walking alone like a primitive man (see their hungry eyes, it's a hungry home...)
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