Hmm, I always appreciate direct headlines that tell me what the story is going to be about, but...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Headline writer in deep shit
Up at the Post, there's the sad story of an 81-year-old Lower East Side woman who was critically injured during a fire in her Grand Street apartment. And here's the paper's treatment of the story online...
Hmm, I always appreciate direct headlines that tell me what the story is going to be about, but...
Hmm, I always appreciate direct headlines that tell me what the story is going to be about, but...
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There's a building in Brooklyn that bears the name "Graham Home for Old Ladies" carved over the entrance.
http://brooklynhistory.org/blog/2009/06/12/old-ladies-and-respectable-but-indigent-
That the word "old" should now be politically-incorrect is further evidence that our culture is entirely too youth-obsessed.
(Yes, only crazy people respond to long-dead threads!)
Thanks for commenting on this one, Lisa!
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