Comments on: AP offers alternate reality… http://rhetorica.net/archives/3728.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:01:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: acline http://rhetorica.net/archives/3728.html/comment-page-1#comment-3733 acline Wed, 23 Mar 2005 05:28:13 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=3728#comment-3733 Sven- :-) I'll be mentioning this reporter's tool soon. R- Yes, the zeugma is an interesting trope. Sven- :-) I’ll be mentioning this reporter’s tool soon.

R- Yes, the zeugma is an interesting trope.

]]> By: rgrafton http://rhetorica.net/archives/3728.html/comment-page-1#comment-3732 rgrafton Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:12:27 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=3728#comment-3732 Oh, I forgot. One of the joys of the internet is discovering unexpected gems like "zeugma". Oh, I forgot. One of the joys of the internet is discovering unexpected gems like “zeugma”.

]]> By: rgrafton http://rhetorica.net/archives/3728.html/comment-page-1#comment-3731 rgrafton Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:09:26 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=3728#comment-3731 Jeff Jarvis has a good post on this. His take (and I agree) is that these "literary" ledes waste reader's time. When I read news on the internet, I just want the facts ma'am. One of my pet peeves about the current state of print journalism is that it is obvious that journalists are really just frustrated novelists. You have to scroll down several paragraphs to get to the meat of the article, and even then, it is full of opinion and not fact. I wish I would have known this back in the day when I was considering a career in journalism, but decided against it since I was more interested in creative writing. I coulda been a contender! <a href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_03_22.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_03_22.html</a> Jeff Jarvis has a good post on this. His take (and I agree) is that these “literary” ledes waste reader’s time. When I read news on the internet, I just want the facts ma’am. One of my pet peeves about the current state of print journalism is that it is obvious that journalists are really just frustrated novelists. You have to scroll down several paragraphs to get to the meat of the article, and even then, it is full of opinion and not fact. I wish I would have known this back in the day when I was considering a career in journalism, but decided against it since I was more interested in creative writing. I coulda been a contender! http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2005_03_22.html

]]> By: Sven http://rhetorica.net/archives/3728.html/comment-page-1#comment-3730 Sven Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:58:12 +0000 http://localhost/wpp3/?p=3728#comment-3730 News "writing?" Feh. The future is here, and it's spelled <a href="http://www.rationalenquirer.org/features/bomb_a_tron.php" rel="nofollow">d-a-t-a-b-a-s-e</a>. And here I thought you were a hep cat with all that podcasting and stuff. (I kid, but IIRC the AP was playing around with this sort of thing last fall. Someone hit the wrong button and published a story about election results a week before the polls opened.) News “writing?” Feh. The future is here, and it’s spelled d-a-t-a-b-a-s-e. And here I thought you were a hep cat with all that podcasting and stuff.

(I kid, but IIRC the AP was playing around with this sort of thing last fall. Someone hit the wrong button and published a story about election results a week before the polls opened.)

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