When I was in college I had dreams of a career in journalism. This was the 90's so we didn't yet know that the internet was going to completely destroy traditional news platforms like newspapers and most magazines. During my time studying I was an editor of a small circulation newspaper and I wasn't even paid for my job. Later, I would experience so much trouble getting an actual job in journalism that I abandoned the career trajectory altogether and this turned out to be a very good thing since most of those jobs have been eliminated anyway.
Bad headlines have always been a hobby of mine and I am pleased to say that during the semester that I worked as an unpaid editor for my college newspaper my paper never had any screwups as big as these.
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There is nothing grammatically wrong with this but it is one of those things that just falls into the "you can word that better" section of editing. If someone had put a headline like this on my desk I would have laughed a bit and then rejected it. This is what the editor of this paper, who was presumably paid a salary, failed to do.
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When you are an editor you need to have a wide variety of skills. You also need to have the courage to ask others when you are not sure. This is elementary school level math here and the fact that they got it wrong is inexcusable. It seems to me that this would probably be categorized as "fake news" these days and the way we see our MSM manipulate statistics to support their agendas is still fake, but it is hidden a bit better than the math that this numb-nuts decided to use as a headline.
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This is just in poor taste and I can only hope that the editor was too busy to notice it.
Funny, perhaps intentional, but still in bad taste. While this was in a small regional newspaper it certainly is a keeper. Tiger probably never reads these things but if he were to do so, I think he would be less than delighted about their choice of words.
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This would probably be considered racist (because everything is!) these days but when this was printed it probably got more of a reaction "gee, do you thinks so?" from the public in the past. It would be like you moving to Japan and then going to English classes and you absolutely destroy all the other students on the tests. I wonder why?
It used to irritate me back in the day when I still really wanted to be an editor that I couldn't find a job and the people who did have the jobs were continually pushing out garbage like this. Sure, it is funny, but the objective of non-satire papers is not to be funny, it was to be informative. These days I am pleased that I didn't find a job in that field because it almost certainly would not exist today if I had. In the meantime we now live in an age where if someone posts something where they butchered a headline, they can quickly edit it before too many people find out. I suppose this would have eliminated even more editorial jobs because now we can quick edit almost anything. There was a time where mistakes like this were permanent once they went to print though.
