Is the Rutland Herald edited by illiterates?

It’s bad enough that the content of the articles can sometimes leave something to be desired

Doug Racine has been trying out a new line lately.

…but the headlines are a bit of a problem as well.

I don’t mean to be a pain.  I am willing to let errors of grammar, syntax and spelling slide from time to time.  I know we make them here on our blog often enough.  We, however, are not a major media outlet. We are not paid professionals.  We do not have decades of service, nor do we have a reputation to maintain.

And when we do this…

well we’ll correct it.

Admittedly, it is not quite as bad as this…

…but since that’s just sports, I find it hard to care.

Other headlines I’ve seen from the Herald:

Group sues to stop mosque near NYs ground zero

A-Rod rapsNo. 600 inYanks win

That, by the way, is just in the last week.

Maybe it’s just the online edition; I never see the actual paper version of this particular old media outlet.  But really, can’t we at least get the basic grammar of the headlines correct?  

Is that too much to ask?

3 thoughts on “Is the Rutland Herald edited by illiterates?

  1. The Messenger gets a case of the “ill-iterations” from time to time, too.  It makes me cringe, but I wonder whether anyone else takes note.

  2. The biggest error I saw in the headlines you reproduced is the word “mosque”.

    The MSM have generally swallowed that meme, but IT’S NOT A MOSQUE, PEOPLE!

    There.

  3. The T-A is essentially my “local” paper, and headlines like this are a big part of why I stopped buying the hard copy years ago ( I mean, even before I was thinking so much about wasting paper).

    Of course, it could allow Doug to take on some Truman mojo:  “I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”  

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