Monday, March 17, 2014

Mr Spiggott - you are, I believe, auditioning for the part of Tarzan a serious journalist.
Right.
Now Mr Spiggott, I couldn't help noticing - almost at once - that you are a one-legged person profoundly ignorant of both grammar and the meanings of words.
You noticed that?

As the mystery of vanished flight MH370 continues, with searchers misdirected for days because sections of the Malaysian government conceal information rather than admit to their own incompetence, naturally our attention turns to the unproofread illiteracy of major news agencies.
"Foul play among [air accident] investigators" is a TV series I'd like to watch.

Reuters is currently in the lead for the hotly-contested prize for cloth-eared gibberish. There is stiff competition from Sarah Toms of Associated Press, however, guilty of "grappling with the enormity of the search ahead of them".

I am also disappoint at the lack of coverage given to my preferred "Hijacked-and-landed-on-an-improvised-airstrip-on-a-volcanic-island-near-Timor" account of the disappearance.

4 comments:

H. Rumbold, Master Barber said...

Do you know a man with one leg in this town named Smut?

Smut Clyde said...

"This town named Smut" is just down the road from A Town Like Alice.

Yastreblyansky said...

Funny, one of my legs is named Smut too. The left if memory serves.

ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© said...

because sections of the Malaysian government conceal information rather than admit to their own incompetence

That appeared to me as "sections of the Indian Ocean" at first glance.
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