Title Will Go Here and Here Please
The News may be missing a headline for the “Police Beat” column, but that’s no reason not to be polite. “Head will go here and here please,” they decorously instruct.
The News may be missing a headline for the “Police Beat” column, but that’s no reason not to be polite. “Head will go here and here please,” they decorously instruct.
Oh, that’s just fucking GREAT. Now I have to go buy the damn paper just to clip and save!!!
posted by Lazaro on January 12th, 2005 at 4:21 pmWell, that happens at every paper. But I can think of one where the managing editor’s door is completely coated with clippings of such gaffes, and, funnily enough, they’re (cough) all from the News.
posted by Laura on January 12th, 2005 at 10:12 pmAs a copy editor who has missed his fair share of typos (always a day-ruiner), I should say that in fairness you can also find mistakes aplenty in larger papers like the Detroit News and even in the New York Times, if you look.
And I know the Ann Arbor News is no great shakes, but for the ultimate in local paper suckitude, you need to read the Midland Daily News. Now that’s a paper whose amateurishness rivals any high school rag.
posted by Dave on January 13th, 2005 at 10:46 amOh, I dunno–sometimes small papers like the Midland Daily News are good community voices. I note the lead story [reg. req.] is about the local jail. The Saline Reporter recently reported on an important story about a proposed countywide jail millage for the badly overcrowded Wash. Cty. jail. The story had lots of implications and ramifications. I didn’t see it covered by either the AA News or the Ypsi Courier.
posted by Laura on January 13th, 2005 at 8:36 pmThe Saline Reporter’s article was blatantly one sided! Not one comment from an intelligent critic
posted by Chuck on January 14th, 2005 at 7:51 pmof the Jail Proposal. The jist of the article was,
“Lock’em up and throw away the key!” The best argument I’ve heard so far is that increasing jail space leads to greater demand since the authorities will keep filling up the space until there is none left. The fact is that crime in Washtenaw County has gone down in recent years while the length of jail stay by an inmate has increased on average, hence, the lack of space. The point I’m making here is that the method the authorities use to decide who needs to be in jail is not driven by an assesment of how dangerous the inmate is but by how much space there is in the jail. There are many non-violent offenders sitting in the county jail who do not need to be there. For these people, there should be better diversion programs in place. By preventing the authorities from simply locking people up, we will force them to come up with better methods for handling non-violent offenders.