Perhaps bringing a fitting end to the year, the staff closed out 2008 with another beauty, this time in the headline announcing their Citizens of the Year.
In choosing Joel Froomkin and Rich Najuch, the design of the page had a red box over the photo that said "Citizens of the Year." As if we didn't know what the story was going to be about from that, the headline writer decided to spell it out again in the headline, or at least attempted to do that.
Thus, we get, in large-point type hearkening back to the Reign/Rein debacle, is:
Najuch, Froomkin
named Citizens of the
I'm not sure where the mystical land of "the" is, but I'm sure Joel and Rich are proud to now be citizens of it.
As a sidebar to that glaring wonder, there is another headline in Wednesday's paper that also is terrifically misleading.
"Marion recycling begins January"
Where do we start? Is Tarzan writing headlines? How about "Vikings play North Arena?"
Me like. Headline good. Paper bad.
And what's with "Marion recycling begins." It seems to give the reader we're talking about Marion recycling (imagine thing that?) As a Huntingtonian, do I care about Marion recycling? Not really.
You have to read into the story to see that it's Marion Services who are taking over recycling IN Huntington.
See, there's that word "IN" that you might have been looking for. I guess the word "in" ran off with the word "year" that was supposed to be in the other headline.
Don't you hate it when words just jump off the page - literally.
Oh yeah, there's another Marion story at the bottom of the page. At least it's in the headline. The story only says someplace called Five Points Mall. We're guessing it's Marion.
And another thing - no Colts were there, despite the headline. It was only some cheerleaders and the big blue mascot.
But then again, it was in Marion, so why would anyone in Huntington care?
Perhaps some of these boo-boos are made because there isn't an EDITOR to provide some oversight on what goes out of the box. It's pretty hard to edit your own stuff, but missing huge-point headlines is gross negligence. Even the printer should have caught that one!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many Marion stories because the HP now has to send all their stories to Marion to be edited (but they obviously don't edit the page as a whole as noted by the headline errors), and if there is a lack of stories, Marion gets to "donate" some of theirs.
ReplyDeleteThe HP does not send stories to Marion to be edited. They send the paper there to be printed. I agree with Newshound that the paper desperately needs an editor. No one in the newsroom has any real journalism background. They cannot write news stories, much less anything else. They do not understand the concept of actually going out to cover the news. But, sadly, Paxton Media does not care.
ReplyDeleteActually, with the departure of Tom Davis, the stories ARE edited in Marion, by publisher Andy Eads.
ReplyDeleteYes. I know.
My goodness, he must be a horrible editor if all those errors are not being caught. I thought Mr. Eads worked in Huntington,not Marion.
ReplyDeleteHe does work in Huntington. But he is having all of the stories sent to the editor in Marion.
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