Our thanks to Mike P for this piece in the Telegraph. The paper’s headline is this:

Mother, father and child survive dramatic fall onto tube tracks at Baker Street

The start of the piece:

A family of three miraculously escaped both electrocution and being hit by a train on the London Underground last night (FRI) after falling onto the tracks.

Shortly before 10.15pm a mother pushing her child in a buggy lost her bearings while reading an overhead information board, and mother child and pushchair fell onto the track at Baker Street.

The father leapt down to help his family while the couple’s other child, a toddler, looked on from the platform.

Hopefully, you’ll agree a more accurate headline would have been:

Courageous man risks his life to save the lives of his wife and child, after the latter fall onto tracks at Baket Street

Nowhere in the article is the man’s courage recognized, let alone celebrated. Imagine the media frenzy if the following had been true:

A family of three miraculously escaped both electrocution and being hit by a train on the London Underground last night (FRI) after falling onto the tracks.

Shortly before 10.15pm a father pushing his child in a buggy lost his bearings while reading an overhead information board, and father child and pushchair fell onto the track at Baker Street.

The mother leapt down to help her family while the couple’s other child, a toddler, looked on from the platform.

Hmm, we never read of stories like that, do we?