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| | Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The Sun newspaper on the Falklands |
 | | Wendy Henry shouted "Gotcha!", not as a suggested headline but as a spontaneous reaction, the kind of fl joke common to every newspaper office. |
 | | Realising that "Gotcha" might be inappropriate, MacKenzie drew up another front page with a new headline: "Did 1,200 Argies drown?" The Sun's owner, Rupert Murdoch, happened to walk on to the floor as MacKenzie was completing the new layout and said he didn't see the need to replace "Gotcha". |
 | | But the time it took to make the change ensured that hundreds of thousands of the first edition were published and "Gotcha" came to symbolise ever after the Sun's, and MacKenzie's, cynical, jingoistic, bloodthirsty war coverage. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /falklands/story/0,11707,657850,00.html (922 words) |
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