News You Can Use
By Mitch Berg
Headline from today’s Strib:
Drought may cut odds of spring floods in Minnesota
Am I being too picky when I say “I think you’re underestimating your readers?”
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November 14th, 2011 at 7:33 am
Somebody worked really hard to come up with that headline. Cut him some slack, Mitch.
November 14th, 2011 at 8:16 am
You have to understand the average STrib reader. The fact that they can read is a net positive.
November 14th, 2011 at 8:34 am
No, Mitch, you underestimate your editors. If they choose to create a drought or a flood, they will do so. The question becomes whether drought or flood creates the more compelling crisis. If you print it, they will believe.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:38 am
I vote for flood. The pictures are much more dramatic. Someone standing on his roof in a drought just isn’t compelling.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:48 am
The only thing they had to edit from the headline was “Pawlenty at fault.”
November 14th, 2011 at 12:21 pm
It’s obviously a result of man-made global warming. The Strib, not the dought.
November 14th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
C’mon, give the Strib a break. There may be places in the watershed that are not experiencing a drought.
November 14th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Women, sandbag manufacturers, suffer most.
November 14th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Farmers expecting worse than usual growing season.
November 14th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Yet another head line from the Red Star that makes a sane person go, “What the…?!”
November 14th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Had to be a last minute correction by the editor-the full headline was ‘Global Warming caused drought may cut odds of spring flooding’, but that didn’t fit the current talking points.
November 14th, 2011 at 4:03 pm
I see a new crisis being birthed: Global dehydration.
November 14th, 2011 at 4:18 pm
This demands a FACTCHECK™
November 14th, 2011 at 4:47 pm
Was that headline tucked in between stories bashing Congresswoman Bachmann?
November 14th, 2011 at 6:26 pm
I laughed at that headline, especially after havingPaul Douglas tell us almost everyday that “More greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere means more precipitation.”
November 14th, 2011 at 8:59 pm
My take is that the Obama and Franken voters in their readership probably need the explanation.
November 15th, 2011 at 10:54 am
In other news, “Plane Too Close To Ground, Crash Probe Told”.
Surely this headline will lead to a Sunday editorial on the need for federal intervention in the ground-wetting proceess.