Another reason I am looking forward to the demise of CanWest

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Viejo Vizcacha - 21 May 2009 03:53 GMT

The headline: "‘I can’t make it,’ drowning man told to friends".

"told to friends?" "Told to!!!???"

This is the language used in the main newspaper of the Canadian
capital, the main newspaper of the capital of a G7 country. Not
satisfied with murdering the truth, they are now murdering the
language.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/make+drowning+told+friends/1613988/story.html

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R H Draney - 21 May 2009 07:32 GMT

Viejo Vizcacha filted:

>The headline: "=91I can=92t make it,=92 drowning man told to friends".
>
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>http://www.ottawacitizen.com/make+drowning+told+friends/1613988/story.html

But it's Canada, so even if they succeed in murdering one language, they still
have a spare....r

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Duncan Patton a Campbell - 21 May 2009 12:21 GMT

> The headline: "‘I can’t make it,’ drowning man told to friends".
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> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/make+drowning+told+friends/1613988/story.html

This lack of editorial integrity is common to all of Canwest's papers.
They replaced editors with spell checkers when they got word processors
and then patted themselves on the backs for a smart business move.

This puts them into the same consumer category as a paper blog:

Dhu

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Don Phillipson - 21 May 2009 13:43 GMT

> > "told to friends?" "Told to!!!???"
> >
> > This is the language used in the main newspaper of the Canadian capital,
> > the main newspaper of the capital of a G7 country. Not satisfied with
> > murdering the truth, they are now murdering the language.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/make+drowning+told+friends/1613988/story.html

> This lack of editorial integrity is common to all of Canwest's papers.
> They replaced editors with spell checkers when they got word processors
> and then patted themselves on the backs for a smart business move.

Ottawa residents are sadly used to the disappearance of
the linguistic standards of say 1850-1980. A recent
Ottawa Citizen front page headline said someone was expected
to "calm rising tensions." Whether because of defective
high school teaching or current pressures of work, editors
today apparently do not know what mixed metaphors are,
thus do not notice them when they appear on the screen.

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Don Phillipson
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(Ottawa, Canada)

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Duncan Patton a Campbell - 21 May 2009 13:52 GMT

>> > "told to friends?" "Told to!!!???"
>> >
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> today apparently do not know what mixed metaphors are, thus do not
> notice them when they appear on the screen.

People here commit grammatic/semantic errors all the time and many are
decent writers. That's what human editors are for. We all make mistakes,
and it's a lot quicker to get someone to else to find them than do it
yourself.

Dhu

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CDB - 21 May 2009 14:00 GMT

>> The headline: "'I can't make it,' drowning man told to friends".

>> "told to friends?" "Told to!!!???"

>> This is the language used in the main newspaper of the Canadian
>> capital, the main newspaper of the capital of a G7 country. Not
>> satisfied with murdering the truth, they are now murdering the
>> language.

>> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/make+drowning+told+friends/1613988/story.html

> This lack of editorial integrity is common to all of Canwest's
> papers. They replaced editors with spell checkers when they got
> word processors and then patted themselves on the backs for a smart
> business move.

> This puts them into the same consumer category as a paper blog:

Izzy's dead and Lordy's in jail. The Southams are the unpunished
culprits.

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Gisele - 21 May 2009 17:44 GMT

Viejo Vizcacha <nats_uglyman@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:f98f0aa5-ec1e-43f6-b7f4-
28bbe5478f0d@e24g2000vbe.googlegroups.com:

> The headline: "‘I can’t make it,’ drowning man told to friends".
>
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
>
> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/make+drowning+told+friends/1613988/story.html

Oddly enough, many papers like the Citizen are also
very right-wing these days. I too can't wait for their
demise.

Gisele

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Discussion Groups / English Usage / May 2009

Another reason I am looking forward to the demise of CanWest