If you ever worked for a newspaper, or for a quality type shop, or as an editor, you must wonder – as I do – who is on duty on the internet on the weekend. I'm thinking maybe a 12 year old boy.
The only way a headline like the one above would have made it to print at any place I ever worked is if a smartass typesetter did it on purpose and snuck it in.
I don't think many people who dabble at internet news are smart enough to even be called smartasses.
3 comments:
Well said!
Linda
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If we could get horses with hoovers on their feet, it would cut down on housework. No electricity required either. When not vacuuming it could just stand still and be a clothes horse. Only trouble is I don't know if shops sell disposable horse-sized diapers (nappies). They would need to be made from very tough material.
I have heard a spate of misplaced modifiers in the news lately. Someone called a shooter a "former disgruntled employee" when "disgruntled former employee" would have been more accurate. Other examples slip my mind at the moment, but I was responsible for one myself several years ago when I walked into the men's furnishings department at Macy's and told the clerk I wanted to buy a black man's umbrella. I knew at once that what I should have said was a man's black umbrella.
We editors pick up on things that other people miss entirely.
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