This headline is the bomb
The Scotsman is a good paper, but probably could have found a better way to say this:
Israel drops huge financial bombshell on Palestinians
I was thinking the copy editor who wrote the headline had an isolated case of the sillies, but apparently the writer has it, too.
Here's the first sentence:
Israel yesterday fired the opening salvo in an economic war...
Israel drops huge financial bombshell on Palestinians
I was thinking the copy editor who wrote the headline had an isolated case of the sillies, but apparently the writer has it, too.
Here's the first sentence:
Israel yesterday fired the opening salvo in an economic war...
posted by bp at
11:35 PM
2 Comments:
Media worldwide certainly does like to stir up conflict and controversy.
Is the Scotsman a private newspaper, or state-run? I'll bet that it's private, trying to sell papers with headlines like that.
I agree that it's a good publication, nonetheless.
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t'su, at 1:50 PM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's private. The metaphors are just in poor taste, I think. It annoys me when sports broadcasters and writers over-use war analogies, but to do it when talking about a financial situation in a region that is somewhat at war... that's just bad.
I do sympathize with headline writers who have to be as creative as possible to fill rigid spaces. But there must have been a better way to say it.
By
bp, at 9:41 PM
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