Journalists aren’t known for their math. But solving this problem should be easy for journalists. (via Stuff Journalists Like)
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
42 days until the Reason Rally.
A gratuitous promo for the Reason Rally, March 24 in Washington, D.C. Heather and I will be there, with a contingent from the Rochester area.
Don’t do that: Why joke headlines are a bad idea [Profanity warning]
(via jimromenesko.com)
Editors and staff are eating crow at The Suffolk Journal, the student newspaper at Suffolk University in Massachusetts. A sub-head printed in yesterday’s paper read, “Even we had some dumb fuckers sign up!”
Screenshot from the Feb. 1 Suffolk Journal, via jimromenesko.comDon’t get me started on the use of exclamation points in this headline and sub.