GB News puts the words 'thinking twice' in quotation marks in its headline, though no one in the article says them. Its only quoted source says some soldiers are less inclined to volunteer for certain jobs and that there have been no outright refusals. GB News calls the soldiers heroes in its own voice in a report on an inquiry into alleged extrajudicial killings by the unit. Its paraphrase of the BBC calls the dead 'targets', where the BBC spoke of unarmed people lying asleep.
Headline goes beyond the article
Minor
“'thinking twice'”
Why this matters
The headline puts 'thinking twice' in quotation marks, as if a soldier or officer said it.
The impression it gives
A reader believes an SAS source used these words and that soldiers are reconsidering whether to go on operations at all.
The context
No one in the article says 'thinking twice'. The only source quoted says soldiers are 'less inclined' to volunteer for certain jobs and stresses there have been 'no outright refusals'.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“Less inclined to volunteer for certain jobs, but no outright refusals.”
GB News calls the soldiers 'heroes' in its own voice, in a report on an inquiry into alleged extrajudicial killings by the same unit.
The impression it gives
A reader is told how to judge the soldiers before learning what the inquiry is examining.
The context
The inquiry is examining allegations that SAS soldiers killed unarmed people on night raids. 'Heroes' is the outlet's verdict, not a fact in the article.
How we know
Elsewhere in the article“investigating alleged extrajudicial killings between 2010 and 2013”
“the special unit had killed targets who were asleep”
Why this matters
GB News calls the people killed 'targets' and attributes this to the BBC.
The impression it gives
A reader believes the dead were the intended, legitimate objects of the operations.
The context
The BBC reported that the inquiry is examining allegations that the SAS murdered unarmed civilians and detainees. It said the photos showed soldiers 'could have executed unarmed people lying asleep', not that they killed 'targets'.