May 22, 2007

Know your audience

Two stories by Doyle today, both with ludicrous headlines:

U.N. urges world to slow extinctions

and

Wild potatoes, peanuts at risk from global warming

There was a time in the very distant past when the newspapers wrote at an 8th grade level.  Today with outrageous fiction like: "Extinction rates are rising by a factor of up to 1,000 above natural rates." Reuters seems to be targeting the special education market.

 

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