Our local tabloid has developed a nifty shorthand for transmitting editorial opinion to its readership in its headlines. If an event or person is to be taken as inherently "bad" by the reader, the paper simply places the name of a favorite long-slain or departed Dragon above the news item.
For example, say Ashton Phelps attends a particular wedding, Carnival ball or debutante party where he doesn't like the cake or the wine has gone bad or something. Rest assured, the next day's Nell Nolan's "Social Scene" column will carry the headline Morial Associate Caters Event
So this morning when we read Edwards cohort Bobby Guidry to benefit from loosened alcohol permit rules we can assume that there must be something very very bad about these slightly relaxed permitting rules.
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