VandVsmama
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- Mar 28, 2011
I agree. It also illustrates exactly some of the issues surrounding this whole circus that I've been pointing out in the overall discussion.
Who put the Let Go headline on the story? I highly doubt it was the author, and frequently isn't from what I understood about print journalism. It could have been put there by some low level, cog in the wheel who once upon a time wouldn't have had the credentials and experience to be handed the task. In today's compressed journalism environment it might be considered a post that is simply a low paid body to fill a job that's not considered "vital" to news operations. Did it get put there somewhere along the line by some news aggregator organization that merely rechurns the work of others in high volume as cheaply as possible with no time or care taken as to consider how word choices impact reader understanding? Could it have been placed there by someone who simply wants to sling mud at one side or the other -- or maybe even both depending on the story, as long as it keeps attracting eyeballs, which equals $$$?
It was me. I put the Let Go headline on the story at that newspaper.
Not really. I don't work in journalism. We should all be like Elsa and let it go.