Friday, February 18, 2005

My buddy Rick already broached this subject today. The fact that another sterling example of the following phenomenon popped up within hours of the incredible one he cited earlier is just an amazing coincidence.

What's wrong with this IMDb headline?


At first glance, this looked to me like the news staff at IMDb complaining of assaults on them by Mrs. Federline once every seven days. Of course they meant to say she's on the warpath against the magazine US Weekly. But sloppy headline writing made them appear to be the cowering victims of Britney's wrath.

I should note that they did a better job on their site, capitalizing both the "U" and the "S" to make it somewhat clearer, but the real problem is the construction. If they'd just taken a brief moment to express the same idea in a slightly more accurate way, I wouldn't be ripping on them now.

Silly headline writers.

Posted @ 3:15 PM

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