Friday, August 29, 2003

Journalism Pet Peeve

Does it bother anyone else that news readers (really, it’s the copy writers) form their headline style reports in the present tense regardless of whether the event they’re talking about happened yesterday or is planned for tomorrow?

Case in point from this morning - I was watching FNC as per my usual morning ritual when at the top of the hour, the readerette read the snippet about the 9/11 Port Authority Transcripts being released yesterday. And yet it was in the present tense, something like, “The Port Authority releasing the 9/11 transcripts...” when it was clearly done yesterday. So it should have been, “The Port Authority released the 9/11 transcripts...” right?

Man, that really bugs me.

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