Friday, July 02, 2004
It's Jodi Wil-whore-'em on the line! Get me rewrite!
Probably the world's greatest newspaper will fix it, but Jodi's latest Goring of Kerry ends exactly like this:
Yep! Cut off right in in mid-sentence, at a discretionary hyphen.
But isn't it a shame that the editors didn't slash the story just a little higher up—like immediately before the first character... I mean, that wouldn't restore the Time's rapidly vanishing credibility on national campaign coverage, but at least it wouldn't worsen things for them.
Mr. Kerry also occasionally invokes God, either when talking about his own recovery from prostate can-
(via World's Greatest Newspaper (not!))
Yep! Cut off right in in mid-sentence, at a discretionary hyphen.
But isn't it a shame that the editors didn't slash the story just a little higher up—like immediately before the first character... I mean, that wouldn't restore the Time's rapidly vanishing credibility on national campaign coverage, but at least it wouldn't worsen things for them.
