[lit-ideas] Re: amid miserable thoughts of Enoch Powell, some good news/Twofer
- From: Judith Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 17:20:17 +0000 (GMT)
> On the other hand, none of the headlines in the first poem
> of the "Twofer" was made up.
I actually know what most of them mean! but some are odd
> Aren't headlines an odd form?
I've heard it said the Sun pays its headline writers a fortune. It was though
the News of the World that greeted an England 5-1 win over Germany with "Don't
Mention the Score". (The Independent, which is supposed to be above that kind
of thing, did it too.) The BBC, I sometimes think,is simply (on occasion)
inept.
British
> ones seem to assume more knowledge and agreement than our
> local counterparts do.
I don't know what yours are like. But you know this place: small island,
relatively massive national media, and so on.
Judy Evans, Cardiff
--- On Mon, 27/9/10, David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: amid miserable thoughts of Enoch Powell, some good
> news/Twofer
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, 27 September, 2010, 17:16
>
> On Sep 26, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Judith Evans wrote:
>
> >> n.b.
> >>>> dun making up quotes in
> >>
> >>
> >> :)
> >
> > !! :)
> >
> >
>
> On the other hand, none of the headlines in the first poem
> of the "Twofer" was made up. All were from last week's
> BBC news. Aren't headlines an odd form? British
> ones seem to assume more knowledge and agreement than our
> local counterparts do.
>
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