Don't they teach this stuff in journalism school???

[lyonessnyc]

 There's been a bomb threat made towards a Pennsylvania courthouse. The journalists wrote "A bomb scare was called in..."

Uh, *no*. It's a bomb *threat*.  It's only downgraded to a "scare" when the bomb squad declares it a scare. Until then, it's a *threat*.

WTF, people?  Don't they teach this stuff in journalism school anymore??

Comments

[maryosmanski]

That level of incompetence with word choice sounds fairly typical for the newspaper in the small town in PA where I live.

[lyonessnyc]

It's from WJAC's FB page, from a repost of their Twitter feed. I'd subscribed to their FB page when I found extensive coverage of that accident we'd stopped for, and never "unliked" the page. Sometimes it's interesting for small-town news, but sometimes it creates a more headdesk effect on me. :D

[handlebar605]

in the movie "Hot Fuzz," the Citizens Watch, killed people, because of Bad Acting and Bad grammar & spelling (they were making the community look bad)