Monday, January 9, 2017

In last Friday’s TGIF section: Headline editing remains an issue at our “Paper of Record”

First a question: Why is the Post (you know, “Real News Starts Here”), not reporting the election news that Lake Worth Commissioner Ryan Maier dropped out his District 4 race for re-election? But remember just a little while ago when that little chocolate store closed down? What gives? Anyhow. . .

“Famlies” ? “Famalies”? Headline editing is a weak link at the Post. For example, note that in the article by reporter Kevin Thompson (see link in caption below), not once did he mention the word “curfew”:

The City of Lake Worth never had a “Curfew. But the City did create a new ordinance. This headline was the basis for a hugely popular blog post titled, “One of the ways you know it’s getting close to election season in Lake Worth”.