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11:55 August 20th, 2007

“Shock and dismay…”

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: Uncategorized

Dream day for Owings as D-backs scalp Braves

I have long relied on Reuters to provide me with objective and relevant news. I even have Reuters’ sports headlines on my Yahoo! home page. Imagine my shock and dismay, then, when I logged on to my computer this morning to find this incredibly offensive headline.

I fail to comprehend how such an unbelievably disrespectful headline could have escaped the eyes of your editors. One would think that in these (sometimes overly) sensitive times, you folks at Reuters would be a bit more shrewd when choosing your headlines.

Melissa

This one has come up before, but sadly it slipped through again. We should not be using that verb in sports headlines: GBU Editor

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