Chattanooga is not really a small country town with no educated people.
But one might well get that impression from reading its "news" paper, the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Come visit often as we analyze and dissect what that "news" paper does and how it does it.
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Though the subject of this blog is published daily, the blog is more irregular. Not a day goes by that something in the TFP isn't worth complaining about, but life does hold other requirements. Please, though, go to http://lifeandhardtimesfreepress.blogspot.com/2005/04/shapes-of-things-to-come.html to learn why this blog was started. Thanks, and please do visit often.
About Me
- Michael Morrison
- Cochise County, Arizona, United States
- Long-time journalist, now a free-lance writer, editor, publisher, philosopher, and political activist.
This ought to be a fun site - and it's not just the Chattanooga newspapers. Check out the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, aka The Atlanta Urinal and Constipation! Their editors are famous for changing letters-to-the-editor in order to make them more PC, and it's very common to find incorrect grammar and just plain old bad writing! One of my pet peeves is the misuse of the word "importantly." If you said, "It's more importantly to do your homework than play ball" people would think you were a fool, yet you hear nationally broadcast "journalists" misusing the word in the same way ALL THE TIME! I went ballistic the other morning when I heard Katie Couric saying, "...but more importantly" and to make matters worse she was wearing these RIDICULOUS black horn-rimmed glasses that made her look like a refugee from the 60's.
ReplyDeletePeople will go along with anything! Bad grammar, horn-rimmed glasses - it doesn't matter! They just follow the crowd. Another annoying example: You ask somebody, "How are you?" and they say, "I'm good". AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGHHHHHH!
Thank you, Eileen.
ReplyDeleteAnd whatever the legal status of any marriages, you are definitely a daughter of Henry Lewis.
I hope you realize it is very importantly you keep coming back to visit.
Michael
You should read the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Past Disgrace); I suspect that most of the writers failed to graduate from the Sixth grade!
ReplyDeleteI`m glad to see someone fighting against such ignorance! It`s real importantly that it be do!