Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Fire the Headline Writer

You folks at the Journal Gazette are making this too damn easy. 

An "armed" gun store?  I would hope that the gun store was "armed", that's what they sell. 



While your cranky editor will call "bullshit" and say the the headline is "technically" correct (which it is), it is also ambiguous and confusing, much like your editorials. 

Might a headline like "Gun Store Armed Robbery" confuse the reader less? But maybe the Journal likes to keep their readers baffled and confused. Nice work. 

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