'A bullet through the eye and out of his ear...': Republican describes 15 'gruesome' photos of Bin Laden after he'd been shot in his underpants"
"in his underpants" - it's a weird place to keep one's eyes & ears!
A headline from the Daily Mail, today.....................is this the most risible example of journalistic ignorance of basic grammar and sentence construction?
|
The headline, at least the on-line version, actually says:
"'A bullet through the eye and out of his ear... and shot in his underpants': Republican describes 15 'gruesome' photos of Bin Laden's corpse"
Which seems OK to me. The three dots indicate missing text.
|
...A bullet through the eye and out of his ear... and shot in his underpants...
Two separate points - where's the beef?
"It's raining in Spain, and snowing in Sweden."
On the wider point, more journalists are ill-educated because they are a reflection of society, just like any other group of people.
Teaching English grammar seems unimportant these days, so you have school leavers and university graduates who cannot string a sentence together.
Inevitably, some of them will want to be journalists, and despite being unsuited to the role, some of them will succeed.
|
>> Inevitably, some of them will want to be journalists, and despite being unsuited to the role, some of them will succeed
Our local rag, barely profitable if its mostly boarded-up offices and small fleet of M-reg Metro vans (I kid you not!) are anything to go by, is a shining example of this. I suspect each edition is put together by half a dozen failed GCSE students, although its content has remained at the same barely literate level for the four years I've known it.
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Fri 13 May 11 at 10:23
|
>>On the wider point, more journalists are ill-educated because they are a reflection of society, just like any other group of people.>>
"More" journalists are "ill-educated"??
Thank you too for your incorrect assumption of my levels of education...:-))
Last edited by: Stuartli on Fri 13 May 11 at 10:36
|
Once, during my career in journalism I was described as an 'ill-educated moron''.
I felt constrained to reply that moron I might be but I would not have issue taken with my education.
|
>> On the wider point, more journalists are ill-educated because they are a reflection of society,
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
|
and shot in his underpants'.....
Can't spell either ......
|
...Can't spell either ...
He did that immediately afterwards.
|
Journalists who are ill-educated! - CGNorwich
