It's Six Flags, AP

Formerly with the WWL prior to joining Snyder as Six Flags' boss.

 

Two questions:

1. Is that the same Mark Shapiro who was at ESPN?

2. Was this really worthy of its own thread?

 

Dan Snyder and Mark Shapiro - what a great match. Never much cared for Shapiro turing ESPN into the Game Show Network.

 

I'll take these!!! I'll go one at a time, so i'm clear:
1: yes
2: no

 

On a remotely related note, what irks me is when words that begin with lower-case letters are kept lower-case when the word begins a sentence. Some editoris feel it's a sin and refuse to do it, but I don't see the big deal.

What's the style on that?

"EBay has lost its luster" or "iPhone are overrated?

 

Mark Shapiro was great in The Client.

 

Six Flags . . . even shorter than Dan Snyder . . .

 

As far as I'm (and we're) concerned, they're dead wrong on the style on U.S and all the states. And I don't understand why they do it; if there's some arcane reason, I'm all ears. Anything like that the differentiates between copy in headlines and copy in copy is a land mine. We'll change it every time.

As far as lowercase to start a sentence is concerned, never, as far as I'm concerned.

And here, it's Adidas as well.

 

MileHigh, I'm almost positive that the U.S. to US thing is pretty new, too.

Somebody would have to explain to me the "more room" thing, because I generally have more room to write headlines -- meaning more care needs to be taken, too -- on the Internet than I ever had in print.

 

Why do you change the proper name of a product or company like iPhone or adidas?

If something said Podunk & Smith, would you switch it to Podunk and Smith because of the ampersand?

I've never understood that. It's the company's name or name of the product.

 

It's an arguable point -- we've certainly had the argument, and it sounds like we'd have it with you -- but here, your naming rights don't include lowercasing what is, bottom line, a proper name -- but beyond that, no matter what your thinking on that issue, we're not going to start a sentence with a lowercase letter. That's simply written English language.