The need to speak clearly

During the recent devastating floods in Queensland, Australia, the front page of the Morning Bulletin of Rockhampton on 6 January included the headline "30,000 pigs swept away in flood".
 
The next day, the paper featured this correction:  "What Baralaba piggery-owner Sid Everingham actually said was '30 sows and pigs', not '30,000 pigs'."