Wordsmith Talk |
About Us | What's New | Search | Site Map | Contact Us | |||
Register Log In Wordsmith.org Forums General Topics Q&A about words punt
Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Doesn't make any difference whether it's conscious or unconscious, though it may well be that the experts used the word "punts" rather than the reporter's injecting it into the story.
But if the reporter put it in, it's not a good thing. My mother, God rest her soul, was a journalist who was not above injecting things like this into a story. One she got in a spot of trouble for was a reference to a politician's friends as cronies rather than the more neutral term friends or colleagues. And she double damn sure did it on purpose. She and I had a few words about it, and the editor who let it through got a pretty good tongue-lashing. Mom came darned close to being fired.
TEd
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted punt dalehileman 02/14/06 03:23 PM Re: punt TEd Remington 02/14/06 04:08 PM Re: punt dalehileman 02/14/06 06:31 PM Re: punt TEd Remington 02/14/06 08:09 PM Re: punt dalehileman 02/14/06 11:28 PM Re: punt TEd Remington 02/15/06 12:13 AM Re: punt Myridon 02/15/06 03:41 PM Re: punt dalehileman 02/15/06 06:30 PM Re: punt Jackie 02/16/06 01:53 AM Re: punt wofahulicodoc 02/19/06 03:36 AM Re: punt belMarduk 02/19/06 08:05 PM Re: punt Faldage 02/19/06 09:08 PM Re: punt wofahulicodoc 02/21/06 12:43 AM Re: punt dalehileman 02/21/06 02:22 PM Re: punt maverick 02/22/06 03:10 PM
Moderated by Jackie
Link Copied to Clipboard
Forum Statistics Forums16Topics13,913Posts229,580Members9,187 Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
Newest Members Karin, JeffMackwood, artguitar, Jim_W, Rdbuffalo
9,187 Registered Users
Who's Online Now 0 members (), 332 guests, and 0 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Top Posters(30 Days) A C Bowden 23
Top Posters wwh 13,858Faldage 13,803Jackie 11,613wofahulicodoc 10,713tsuwm 10,542LukeJavan8 9,931Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210AnnaStrophic 6,511Wordwind 6,296of troy 5,400
Forum Rules · Mark All Read Contact Us · Forum Help · Wordsmith.org