Picking on Newsday again, but jeez, it’s in a freaking headline: Isles game in KC doesn’t phase Hempstead’s Murray Good thing, because if a town supervisor on Long Island possessed mutant superpowers, hardly anyone would be unfazed.

This week’s homonym-impaired media outlet: Crain’s New York Business, which reported on the release of a fake edition of the New York Times thusly: Five years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the war in Iraq is over. At … Continue reading →

Headline from today’s New York Sun: Cost of Tuition at Colleges Breasts $50,000 a Year “Breast” (the verb) can mean to “overcome” (as in an obstacle), but not to surpass, which is what the Sun means here. Either some headline … Continue reading →

NBC’s Olympics coverage has generated an awful lot of laughably awkward prose – my favorite was the gymnastics commentator (not sure who – don’t think it was Al Trautwig) who remarked that “If the Chinese spell ‘history’ with a capital … Continue reading →

From an article in amNewYork (Newsday’s free daily) on how European tourists don’t tip enough at New York restaurants: Some restaurants have wizened up and now put gratuity right into the bill. Unless they’re talking about really old restaurateurs, amNewYork’s … Continue reading →

What is it about journalists and homonyms? From today’s Newsday story on the passport kerfuffle: A Passportgate scandal swept the presidential campaign Friday as the State Department revealed it is investigating unauthorized peaks into the passport files of all three … Continue reading →

A two-fer from Tom D’Angelo in the Palm Beach Post: Loria, making his first appearance at spring training, is so eager to start construction that “I’d like to hit the button,” he said when asked about the razing of the … Continue reading →

Never let it be said that the journilliteracy watch doesn’t cast its net far and wide. From the Kane County Chronicle in Kane County, Illinois, comes this report: Geneva High School is taking safety precautions after a threat was found … Continue reading →

Tuesday’s amNewYork had this to say about late-night shows’ attempts to get back on the air despite the writers’ strike: Noticeably absent from the hoopla is David Letterman, who is trying another tact, according to Tom Keaney, spokesman for the … Continue reading →

Here’s Emily Friedman of ABC News going all spoilery in her piece on the controversy over “The Golden Compass”: As Lyra gets closer to her goal of reaching the Magisterium – located in the alternate universe of Bolvanger – she … Continue reading →