Hed warning: Restraint expected
Dear copy editors: The world is diminished by the exit of Earl Scruggs. Please do your best to avoid making matters worse; don't refer to his craft as pickin'.
Conclusions will be drawn about news outfits' appreciation of American music from their handling of this event. (CNN, FixedNews, I am looking at your front pages now; at least the NYT has gotten Adrienne Rich out there. Washington Post, we can do without "Who is the Rt. 29 Batman.")
Meanwhile, have a shot of the real stuff. OK, have another.
Conclusions will be drawn about news outfits' appreciation of American music from their handling of this event. (CNN, FixedNews, I am looking at your front pages now; at least the NYT has gotten Adrienne Rich out there. Washington Post, we can do without "Who is the Rt. 29 Batman.")
Meanwhile, have a shot of the real stuff. OK, have another.
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posted by fev at 8:44 PM
3 Comments:
So are you going to follow up tomorrow with a survey of who didn't get the message?
Or inserts random grammatical errors when rewriting the slightly-off information in the AP story?
Yeah, probably.
He's truly missed.
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