Idiotic AP headline of the day

Bureau Chief · Mar 6th 2010, 06:15 AM

"Family: Soldier who died joined Army was patriotic".

This is what you get when you fire all of your experienced people and try to make do with interns and high school newspaper cast-offs.

s'news · Mar 6th 2010, 07:52 AM

Wow. The Army is taking dead people.

Spike · Mar 6th 2010, 09:35 AM

Oh no! A typo! How horrible!

Sparky · Mar 7th 2010, 07:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Spike

Oh no! A typo! How horrible!

That ain't no typo. It's just plain wrongo.

Another side · Mar 7th 2010, 12:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bureau Chief

"Family: Soldier who died joined Army was patriotic".

This is what you get when you fire all of your experienced people and try to make do with interns and high school newspaper cast-offs.

I don't understand how it got past management ... management isn't comprised of interns and high school newspaper cast-offs, is it?

wx or not · Mar 8th 2010, 04:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Bureau Chief

"Family: Soldier who died joined Army was patriotic".

Wouldn't his recruiter have noticed something unique about him?

News Is Broken · Mar 8th 2010, 06:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bureau Chief

"Family: Soldier who died joined Army was patriotic".

This is what you get when you fire all of your experienced people and try to make do with interns and high school newspaper cast-offs.

I don't wrong see that with what's headline.

Another OMB · Mar 8th 2010, 07:17 AM

In trying not to discriminate against anyone, the military is now accepting the previously living. (Dead has such a negative connotation and can easily engender discrimination.)

ewink · Mar 8th 2010, 07:19 AM

This isn't a headline, but an article teaching us that even the obvious needs to be explained: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100308/...ey_cablevision

Quote:

Derek Baine, a senior analyst at SNL Kagan, said that if all four networks charged $1, that would total $4 a month in new fees. Most cable companies couldn't absorb that cost increase and would have a hard time passing them onto consumers, he said.

News Is Broken · Mar 8th 2010, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by ewink

This isn't a headline, but an article teaching us that even the obvious needs to be explained: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100308/...ey_cablevision

It's a good thing they brought in a senior analyst to explain what 4 x $1 is because a junior analyst would probably get that wrong.

east coast producer · Mar 8th 2010, 10:14 PM

While that deceased person may have joined the Army, apparently in Greece corpses there become politicians.

CBS headline fail.

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s'news MediaLine Master Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Houston Posts: 25,759	Wow. The Army is taking dead people.

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east coast producer Non-Inclusive Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: new york city Posts: 6,963	While that deceased person may have joined the Army, apparently in Greece corpses there become politicians. CBS headline fail.