
Whose Headline Was This?
06/08/2007
As one reader remarks: "I could almost forgive the Americanisation in the text - 'z' instead of 's' - but the goof in the headline?" Click here.
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comments
- "Websites are the bane of all print journalists. Helping to run them is like turkeys voting for Christmas. They are basically rubbish."
corkscrew 16/04/2008
report content as inappropriate - "Nice one - They've amended from 'Whose' to 'Who's'."
SilverLining 07/08/2007
report content as inappropriate - "It's penny pinching by the Record. They put copy boys and IT people on the website as they don't want to pay one journalist."
broken record 06/08/2007
report content as inappropriate - "Well spotted. Probably too much of a "BIG ASK" for overworked subs to notice. Would be difficult, too, to seek a "BIG UP" for the subbing staff after this. These "BIG XXX" are awful phrases that seem to be used in the sport' pages, particularly, these days and they deserve to be banished as quickly as they've emerged. Even The Journalist magazine is at it - on its front-page plug for an interview with freed BBC journo, Alan Johnston, this is what appears: "...the guards changed from jeans to military fatigues. I did a LOT OF SCARED (my capitals) then." What? I'm doing a lot of angry now.I'm doing a lot of despair, worry, disbelief now. Let's return to proper use of the language, folks, please."
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