Here’s another story that popped up on Google News, and which caught my eye because I couldn’t make head or tail of the lede: The ex-wife of a Bolingbrook police sergeant found drowned in her bathtub three years ago was … Continue reading →

Transcribing quotes seems to especially vexing for some journalists. Here’s today’s Boston Globe quoting Mitt Romney: “The monster is this McCain-Feingold bill and it has to be repealed and it just points how in infective it has been in removing … Continue reading →

In an article in today’s Newsday on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, aka Lou Gehrig’s disease: ALS destroys motor neurons and gradually leads to loss of speech and paralyzation. Coining new words when there are perfectly good old ones is a time-honored … Continue reading →

Headline in today’s Washington Post: Turkish Troop Dies; Kurd Rebels Trapped My first thought: An entire troop of Turkish soldiers died? No – only one soldier. Or as the Post calls him, one troop – in defiance of longstanding English … Continue reading →

I’ve been seeing so many awful grammatical/spelling mistakes in my daily newspaper reading that I’ve decided to start keeping a running log here. Today’s offender: Newsday’s Ken Davidoff, who is otherwise one of my favorite baseball columnists. Torre was a … Continue reading →