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This Week in Militantly Ignorant Jackasses

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by MisterCreosote, Sep 12, 2013.

  1. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    Word. Petty, juvenile fight that wastes column inches to stroke his own ego. Maybe his editor should have told him to get off his ass, get out of the office, and report on something that mattered that day? Nah.
     
  2. RonClements

    RonClements Well-Known Member

    Who cares about NEWS as long as there are enough copy inches to fill the space? What do you think this is, a NEWSpaper?
     
  3. Frylock

    Frylock Member

    Egregarious
     
  4. JR

    JR Well-Known Member

    Agree, except readers don't pay bills because the reason is advertisers do :)
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Yes.


    (While we're at it, bitch, "that," as used here, as usual, is superfluous. Now go away.)
     
  6. Bradley Guire

    Bradley Guire Well-Known Member

    Ha! Nice.
     
  7. BillyT

    BillyT Active Member

    Starman: Our copy desk goes after "that," "on," and "the" with a vengeance.
     
  8. dirtybird

    dirtybird Well-Known Member

    As well it should.
     
  9. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    If the columnist's intention was to come off as ignorant and lazy while making his Grammar Nazi enemy sound really smart, he did a great job.
     
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