November 20, 2007

Things that bug me about the NYT

• The excessive use of prepositional phrases at the beginning of heds:

• Awkward 'Is Dead' construction in obit heds. It's just ... harsh:

• Really egregious errors in pieces about my favorite band after The Beatles that clearly were not fact-checked. I know concert reviews are on super-tight deadlines, but c'mon, people*:

*That was for Alex.