Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Juvenile copy-writing Follies
Of course, what more can be said about the McGreevey-Cipel 'Affair' without getting really juvenile really quickly? Such moments can bring out the repressed middle schooler lurking underneath most of us, at least most men. Even journalists are susceptible, and why not? Which of them doesn't secretly wish to be creating headlines for some trashy Brit tabloid or Murdoch's New York Post (a trashy American tabloid)? Hence we are forced to endure headlines such as this one, taken from a recent edition of the Philadelphia Metro:
Of course, what more can be said about the McGreevey-Cipel 'Affair' without getting really juvenile really quickly? Such moments can bring out the repressed middle schooler lurking underneath most of us, at least most men. Even journalists are susceptible, and why not? Which of them doesn't secretly wish to be creating headlines for some trashy Brit tabloid or Murdoch's New York Post (a trashy American tabloid)? Hence we are forced to endure headlines such as this one, taken from a recent edition of the Philadelphia Metro:
Cipel Feared Gov's Well-Oiled Machine
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