Wednesday, July 2, 2008

News grumps

Vicad today has a P1 story, where passages read, "Brett Bonnell, 40, was found laying [blah blah blah]" and then, later on, "[blah blah blah] he was laying on a hill." Poor microcephs up there have become totally confused about lie-lay or maybe just totally indifferent to the distinction. What an embarrassment.
Then a headline in the NYT on-line read, "Fund manager / Who faked his / Own suicide / Surrenders." Seemed to me they could have omitted "his own," but maybe I'm a little dim today.
The Vicad keeps running house ads telling us how great the on-line stuff is, but according to Alexa.com, which monitors Web traffic, Advocate page views/viewer are down 23% against three months ago. Another year of that kind of progress and they'll have almost disappeared.

2 comments:

Sugar Magnolia said...

Can ya stand one more flub from the Vicad? In Thursday's paper, in outdoor news (whatever), a headline proclaimed the merits of the "Engless Summer Hydrangea". "OOH, a new species, how exciting!", thought I. NOT! Of course, they meant "Endless Summer", as in what the Beach Boys were searching for, so to my disappointment there is NOT a new hydrangea species with that intriguing "Engless" moniker. *SIGH*

The Loon said...

Yeah, I noticed that. I had 'A' section set aside to niggle about today because there were so many stupididitties in it but must have misplaced it. There will be more.