Author Topic: I hate journalistic writing (Read 100341 times)

Jonathon · « **Reply #427 on:** April 05, 2011, 09:33:47 AM »

That's . . . unfortunate.

Jonathon · « **Reply #428 on:** April 05, 2011, 09:54:43 AM »

The sad thing is that they've changed the headline online, and now it's just ungrammatical: "Bishops agree new rules on sex abuse".

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #429 on:** April 06, 2011, 09:12:16 AM »

If the looms are shut down, how will our textiles get woven?

BlackBlade · « **Reply #430 on:** April 06, 2011, 03:05:40 PM »

China spins all our clothing these days anyway.

The Genuine · « **Reply #431 on:** April 08, 2011, 08:37:35 AM »

Quote from: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/04/08/barack-obama-s-friend-in-alleged-sex-sting-115875-23045311/

A FRIEND of Barack Obama has been arrested for allegedly soliciting a prostitute.

Bobby Titcomb, 49, was held by an undercover policewoman in a sting in downtown Honolulu, in Hawaii.

I love journalistic writing.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #432 on:** April 10, 2011, 04:25:00 PM »

Quote

Today: sun followed by clouds...

Tomorrow: ...cloudy most of the time

Gee, thanks guys!

The Genuine · « **Reply #433 on:** April 20, 2011, 08:05:10 PM »

Quote from: http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2011_04_20_nyamlb_tormlb_1&mode=wrap

Colon proves he can 'Phil' Hughes' shoes

See how important that accent in Bartolo Colón's name can be?

The Genuine · « **Reply #434 on:** April 26, 2011, 12:19:10 PM »

Quote from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110426/ap_on_re_us/us_plane_crash_cocaine

Wind and current have spread the debris, but 23 packages of cocaine have been found, Garcia said. He said he could not say how much the cocaine weighs.

Why not just say "Wind and currents have spread the debris, but 23 packages of cocaine have been found so far. Garcia could not say how much that cocaine weighs," I say.

Jonathon · « **Reply #435 on:** May 04, 2011, 01:35:16 PM »

Sometimes I find headline conventions kind of quirky and annoying; sometimes I find them downright ungrammatical and nonsensical. This is one of the latter.

Jonathon · « **Reply #436 on:** May 06, 2011, 03:23:01 PM »

I guess I should've posted the actual headline, because now they've gone and revised it.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #437 on:** May 06, 2011, 04:18:17 PM »

Quote from: Jonathon on May 06, 2011, 03:23:01 PM

I guess I should've posted the actual headline, because now they've gone and revised it.

No need, I saw it in time to agree with your consternation.

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #438 on:** May 07, 2011, 12:42:47 AM »

No need; BB saw it. So everything is fine with the world. The rest of us can just move along

BlackBlade · « **Reply #439 on:** May 07, 2011, 07:39:09 PM »

I wish more things worked that way.

Porter · « **Reply #440 on:** May 19, 2011, 06:19:59 AM »

Woman missing since she got lost

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/5410513-417/woman-missing-since-she-got-lost.html

Jonathon · « **Reply #441 on:** May 19, 2011, 08:52:38 AM »

The real question is whether she'll stop being missing once she's not lost.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #442 on:** May 19, 2011, 09:02:50 AM »

The headline in Onionesque.

The Genuine · « **Reply #443 on:** June 23, 2011, 07:47:36 AM »

Quote from: http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/yankees/jorge_the_hero_for_one_day_txWKnsJWAhaVluGdxrw0YL

And Posada probably understands, deep within his heart, that for all the hits that have been springing off his bat lately, for all the swagger that lately has returned to his step, he is still just one more 1-for-20 skid away from pondering the same abyss that’s been looming in front of him since the beginning of the season.

“I’m just doing what I always said I would do,” Posada said between games, inside the cool refuse of the visitor’s clubhouse at Great American Ball Park. “I’m taking the opportunities when they come and trying to make the most of them.”

Was the New York sportswriter deliberately taking a swipe at Cincinnati, or did he just mean to type "refuge" ?

Jonathon · « **Reply #444 on:** June 23, 2011, 09:35:02 AM »

Looks like a typo to me. Unless the clubhouse really is full of cool refuse.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #445 on:** July 01, 2011, 07:44:05 AM »

When teachers go on strike, kids die

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #446 on:** July 01, 2011, 04:09:49 PM »

See what happens! Commie bastages!

Marianne Dashwood · « **Reply #447 on:** August 02, 2011, 03:02:16 PM »

I've decided that in addition to my fatwah against temblors, I would also like to proclaim that no one, anywhere, is ever again to tack "-mageddon" onto the end of a word.

Jonathon · « **Reply #448 on:** August 02, 2011, 03:05:39 PM »

You have no idea how much I'm now tempted to find an excuse to use the word "temblormageddon".

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #449 on:** August 02, 2011, 11:06:45 PM »

It's a very T-rex kind of word.