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<\/p>\nThis isn’t really RottenReporting because the reporting was the usual excellent John Crane writing, but RottenHeadlineWriting takes up too much space and sounds stupid.<\/p>\n
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So late last night, I decide to take a look at the Register & Bee’s website to see what their Sunday feature story is. I immediately crack up laughing at this horribly written headline…<\/p>\n
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Giles is a damned good man and I wish him the best at his fight. But he’s battling cancer<\/em>, not a scanner<\/em>. Sheesh. And he’s Chatham’s town manager<\/em>, not Chatham’s town manger<\/em>.<\/p>\n It took a lot of skill to construct a headline this bad and let it slip through proofreading. That’s assuming that there is any proofreading on Saturdays around 7PM over on Monument St.<\/p>\n So I take a look today just to see if somebody has corrected the headline on the R&B’s website. Here’s what you get…<\/p>\n Well, I guess that’s sort of a correction. They just wiped the story off of their website instead of editing the headline. I searched their website and couldn’t find the article anywhere. I guess they’ll try the article another day… or just forget about posting it.<\/p>\n Screwing up a headline not once, but twice. Deleting the article instead of fixing the errors.<\/p>\n That’s This isn’t really RottenReporting because the reporting was the usual excellent John Crane writing, but RottenHeadlineWriting takes up too much space and sounds stupid.<\/p>\n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rottenreporting","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-3Qu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12244,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/19\/rottenreporting-at-least-they-got-halifax-right\/","url_meta":{"origin":14786,"position":0},"title":"RottenReporting: At Least They Got Halifax Right!","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"March 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Hee hee. 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<\/p>\nRottenReporting<\/del> RottenHeadlineWriting (and RottenEditing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"