When bad headlines go bad

28 March 2008 | Adam Avramescu

Just read this in the Victoria Advocate: “Man sentenced to eight years in fatal DUI crash.” Now that’s a long-ass crash. Think they could have gone a little easier on the poor guy?

Turns out the Statesman picked this one up as “Abilene man gets eight years in fatal crash.” Doesn’t fare much better.

Jeez, world of print journalism. Way to be ambiguous.

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30 March 2008 11:25pm | User: Christine Acker
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They could have fixed both of those easily by switching the preposition “in” for “for.”

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