This is a cutting from yesterday’s Metro. I challenge you to read it once (without prior knowledge of the story) and understand it. It took me three tries, and some collaboration. Just me?
April 9, 2011
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Rantings of a sub-editor 
Took me three attempts with no collaboration! That’s definitely a new definition of “News In Brief”. Also an advert, I’d say, for justified paragraphs with first-line indent…
Comment by Scott Diamond — April 9, 2011 @ 1:05 pm |
That’s amazingly confusing. I can only assume the sub had a nervous breakdown, leaving them with no choice but to publish as it was…
Comment by stroppyeditor — April 9, 2011 @ 7:00 pm |
Blymie. The reporter who wrote this must have followed Mr Kelvin MacKenzie’s advice: no degree, no NCTJ, no problema babe; you can learn how to write in a newsroom in a month, yeah, so easy.
Comment by Chie — April 10, 2011 @ 12:02 am |
Shocking, isn’t it! I showed it to my flatmate and asked if she understood it. She said: “I do, just, but I’m surprised I hadn’t heard that Rio Ferdinand had been shot – I would’ve thought that would be bigger news.”
Enough said!
Comment by substuff — April 10, 2011 @ 12:41 pm |
Not even the attacker understood who he was supposed to shoot.
Comment by Alistair Dabbs — April 10, 2011 @ 10:04 pm |