Over on Lace, there was shock and glee over a newspaper
story about lace getting it right.
My very first experience of reading a report about an event
I had witnessed cured me of taking news stories seriously
even though all the paper did was to caption an
obviously-posed portrait as if the three of us had just
happened to meet on purely-decorative steps, and the
photographer had just happened to be there.
The most irritating story I remember was about a group ride
sponsored by my bicycle club. An astounding number of
people can't distinguish a group ride from a race, so the
publicity chairman gave the reporter a long song-and-dance
about the distinction. The reporter began his story by
repeating the "this in not a race" explanation verbatim.
And the very next line after that paragraph began "The race
begins at . . ."
--
Joy Beeson
http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/
west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
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