To: ApplegateRanch
Does nobody realize they can identify the location (state) the report is about by typing in two additional letters, and maybe a comma?
Who cares. Send every reader off to search and see how many “Hot Springs” locations there are that google knows about.
What happened to journalism? It used to be a profession.
10 posted on
07/10/2011 10:30:51 PM PDT by
tdscpa
To: tdscpa
That's why whenever I post a story, no matter whether the abbreviation is in the dateline or not, I always post the state in the key words.
To your larger question, professional journalism has been replaced with “folksy journalism”, and has had added the twin banes of Advocacy Journalism and “citizen journalism”.
All three are more interested in conveying viewpoint and ‘narrative’, rather than clearly, concisely and coherently transmitting information.
13 posted on
07/10/2011 11:12:17 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
To: tdscpa
BUMP!
(re: STOO-PID™ journalists) I thought: Hot Springs, Arkansas.
16 posted on
07/11/2011 4:41:02 AM PDT by
Condor51
(The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits [A.Einstein])
To: tdscpa
Does nobody realize they can identify the location (state) the report is about by typing in two additional letters, and maybe a comma?
The article begins with "HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — The number of mammoths found in Hot Springs has reached 60...". I'm pretty sure that "S.D." thingie was supposed to be a clue.
29 posted on
07/11/2011 7:08:26 PM PDT by
gitmo
(Hatred of those who think differently is the left's unifying principle.-Ralph Peters NY Post)
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