Springtime
I love springtime. Flowers bloom, birds sing, and SHOUTfest hype emerges. Wouldn't all organizations love to see promotional articles about their events on the front of the City/County section starting nearly four months ahead of their date? Gosh favoritism is fun.
I also love the editorializing that goes along with it. The passive voice works so well for embedded editorializing: "...speaker extraordinaire Joseph Rojas, whose moving personal testimony in 2005 is still considered one of the most memorable SHOUTfest moments." Not to ignore the loaded and unprovable adjectives flapping in the breeze, but boy I love that passive voice. "Considered" by whom? Promoters who stand to benefit, perhaps? Same as the "estimated" 7,000 who were at the festival last year.....who's doing the estimating here?? And wasn't last year's festival the one where it rained almost all freaking day? I'm supposed to believe that 7,000 people were out there in Clat Adams Park in a driving rainstorm? All day?
Cap it all off with a headline that gives us speculation instead of facts and we've got a real beauty. "Christian rock festival could see record crowd" is exactly as factual as "Christian rock festival could see disappointing crowd" or even "Christian rock festival could be canceled because of tornado."
Hurrah, it's springtime! News on the march!
I also love the editorializing that goes along with it. The passive voice works so well for embedded editorializing: "...speaker extraordinaire Joseph Rojas, whose moving personal testimony in 2005 is still considered one of the most memorable SHOUTfest moments." Not to ignore the loaded and unprovable adjectives flapping in the breeze, but boy I love that passive voice. "Considered" by whom? Promoters who stand to benefit, perhaps? Same as the "estimated" 7,000 who were at the festival last year.....who's doing the estimating here?? And wasn't last year's festival the one where it rained almost all freaking day? I'm supposed to believe that 7,000 people were out there in Clat Adams Park in a driving rainstorm? All day?
Cap it all off with a headline that gives us speculation instead of facts and we've got a real beauty. "Christian rock festival could see record crowd" is exactly as factual as "Christian rock festival could see disappointing crowd" or even "Christian rock festival could be canceled because of tornado."
Hurrah, it's springtime! News on the march!
posted by Allthenewsthatfits at 11:19 AM
11 Comments:
What'a your theory on why they give such support to this concert?
Wow, somebody has a burr in their shorts!!!
and guess what ??
QHW favorite headliner Dan Griffin today has a article on how he uses his cell phone !!
WOW.
Maybe you should read the article and learn something. Dan does more in one day to increase the business inviroment in Quincy that Bevilheimer does in ten years. The current admistrations is totally anti business. They don't hve a clue as to what it takes to make a city great except to figure out how to screw the business owners in Quincy
100+ phone calls a day ? WOW. I'm impressed.
What purpose does this state?
Did ALL 100+ calls bring 100+ new businesses into Quincy?
Probably not.
Who gives a crap how many calls he gets a day.
Whats next week?
Answering Text messages?
Thats a lot of mistresses
My theory is that all brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.
That last comment was flippant and I apologize. It was just so humorous to me that my opinions, which are random and disorganized, might constitute a theory. Here's my real opinion, which is twofold:
First, the Whig is understaffed and thus in constant need of local copy. Anything a staff writer produces is likely to end up in print. So feature and other discretionary articles tend to reflect the personal interests of the writers. If the Whig hires a writer who's a fanatic about model trains, expect a blizzard of model train stories in the future.
Second, the Whig's market research skews its preferences. Certain types of stories "test well" among its readers. These types include: individual success stories (struggle against a disease, adversity, etc.); high school sports features (especially when combined with that struggle against adversity motif); and "feel-good" stories that cater to readers' religiosity. So some of the Whig's biases stem from a desire to please the readership and keep circulation up.
Anybody who quotes Monty Python word for word is a hero in my book. My respect level just shot up 200 percent. Now, if you can answer this question, I may make you a deity .... "What is the flight velocity of a swallow?"
What do you mean? An African or European swallow?
WWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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