The classic way of a reporter’s saying that he or she is skeptical of something is to write that “it is believed…” Sometimes this is carried to the extreme, as in a Thanksgiving Day editorial in The Boston Globe, about the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower Compact, a written agreement by the Pilgrims aboard the ship Mayflower, anchored in Provincetown on Cape Cod. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/11/26/opinion/mayflower-compact-turns-400 The editorial says, “…Provincetown — where… Read Article →
Monthly Archives: November 2020
Marinating and prissy NYT’s word.
How a man who never drinks can marinate is a mystery only the New York Times believes. A story on election day, headlined in the Boston Globe, “As campaign closes, a frustrated Trump boasts and vents,” has this lede: “President Trump arrives at election day on Tuesday toggling between confidence and exasperation, bravado and grievance, and marinating in frustration that he is trailing Joe Biden, whom he considers an unworthy… Read Article →