Not bad for a 21st century news article. There’s much worse.
Missed this thread yesterday. By coincidence, last night I was laughing at a photo caption from a CNN story, although the story itself is certainly tragic.
Story: Great white shark killed California surfer, officials say
As noted under the accompanying photo:
Everything through “showing” provides a routine example of unnecessary wording, while the rest provides another hilarious example of why commas matter.
Help! Somebody stole my vocabulary!
My local paper (the Lafayette, IN Journal & Courier) recently had an item heralding the Purdue Airport’s upcoming commemoration of the Tuskegee Airmen. Along with the opportunity to see a restored P-51C Mustang (the aircraft most commonly associated with that group of aviators), visiting schoolchildren could listen to an Airman’s son speak about “rising above diversity to achieve your dreams”. The confusion of “adversity” with “diversity” was especially unfortunate considering the fact that the Tuskegee Airmen were an all-black unit in the then-segregated Army Air Forces.