Did your paper use an asterisk with Bonds? Poll

Rusty Shackleford · Aug 9, 2007

In the spirit of the past few days, I thought I'd create my first poll. Just curious how many papers out there used an asterisk in some form in their Bonds coverage over the past few days. Mine did. And I designed it.

If this (or something like it) already exists somewhere on here, feel free to delete it.

Chi City 81 · Aug 9, 2007

No. Not only is it inaccurate, it's unoriginal.

MileHigh · Aug 9, 2007

1A put 756 then put an asterisk at the bottom and asked "Would you use this asterisk after 756? Tell us what you think at ..." and listed the Web site.
In sports, the asterisk/controversy angle was totally avoided and the page was done in the historical context of the moment.

So I guess that means "sort of"

Sxysprtswrtr · Aug 9, 2007

MileHigh said:
1A put 756 then put an asterisk at the bottom and asked "Would you use this asterisk after 756? Tell us what you think at ..." and listed the Web site.
In sports, the asterisk/controversy angle was totally avoided and the page was done in the historical context of the moment.

So I guess that means "sort of"

Same thing was in "discussion" at my shop. ... 1A wanted to use asterisks, Sports didn't.

But, in the end, neither did.

toivo99 · Aug 9, 2007

A few weeks ago we ran a story on fans' differing opinions on Bonds. My headline was "* or !"

Don't think that counts in this discussion though.

SoCalDude · Aug 9, 2007

I was the editor in charge that night and it was a simple decision not to editorialize in a centerpiece headline of a news story. That is no place for it.
We did not have a columnist writing this. If we did and that was their opinion, then the headline on the column might have addressed the asterisk issue.