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With bingo bringing in high revenue streams for online newspaper editions, it is little wonder that the Daily Star chose to hit The Sun where it hurts with its bingo advertising campaign – but bombing The Sun’s Wapping HQ with Bingo balls?
I’m sure the Sun’s staff in Wapping will see the hilarity. After [...]
I wanted to highlight an excellent article by Charlie Brooker about the impact of SEO requirements and the pressures of web-traffic-oriented journalism on the quality of news.
The article sets out to demonstrate its premise with the first paragraph and then explains it:
“Miley Cyrus, Angelina, Israel vs Palestine, iPhone, 9/11 conspiracy, Facebook, MySpace, and [...]
Here’s a story you would only dwell on briefly if it were on Jerry Springer: a woman who wanted to become a man had her breasts removed and took hormones to make her look more masculine, but still kept all the original plumbing. Then she gets pregnant – not all that surprising, as she’s still [...]
It might just be linguistic sensitivity, or the difference between American and UK English (?), but the following struck me as an odd way to word a real estate ad, and specifically in a post 9/11 New York:
[The Wall Street Journal, Wednesday, May 28, 2008, page 29]
Exploding area? In New York?
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