{"id":10656,"date":"2021-11-24T14:28:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10656"},"modified":"2021-11-24T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:29:07","slug":"another-day-another-dreadful-reach-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10656","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another dreadful Reach headline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another dreadful headline from a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reach_plc\">Reach plc<\/a> (<em>formerly Trinity Mirror. Ed.<\/em>) title.<\/p>\r\n<p>Today&#8217;s comes courtesy of Wales Online and features 2 regular features: firstly the desire the pack the entire story into the headline (instead of that anachronistic practice of giving the odd hint about it. Ed.); and secondly ambiguity.<\/p><p>\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/11\/carmarthen_ambiguity.png\" alt=\"Headline reads The town at panic stations every time there's a flood warning which is being left at the mercy of climate change\" width=\"466\" height=\"453\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/11\/carmarthen_ambiguity.png 466w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2021\/11\/carmarthen_ambiguity-300x292.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/>\r\n<\/p><p>In my first job after graduating, part of the introduction to the company&#8217;s <em>house style<\/em> involved avoiding ambiguity at all costs.<\/p>\r\n<p>This is evidently no longer the case in large swathes of the local press, especially where the titles are owned by the two big players: the aforementioned Reach plc and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Newsquest\">Newsquest Media Group Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another day, another dreadful headline from a Reach plc (formerly Trinity Mirror. Ed.) title. Today&#8217;s comes courtesy of Wales Online and features 2 regular features: firstly the desire the pack the entire story into the headline (instead of that anachronistic practice of giving the odd hint about it. Ed.); and secondly ambiguity. In my first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[36,16,22,33],"class_list":["post-10656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10656"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10665,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10656\/revisions\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}