When online news pages are managed by software instead of human beings, you’re likely to get this kind of thing from time to time. From Google News a few minutes ago:
Lone photo: President Bush.
Headline next to it: “A fond farewell to America’s unexpected president”
Possible interpretations:
A) Premature reporting (Bush still has 748 days and change, according to this countdown clock).
B) Wishful thinking (that Bush would be leaving, not that he’d be following Ford into the afterlife.)
C) An unfortunate juxtaposition that a human editor might have avoided.
