“Police arrived on the scene just five minutes later, moments after Moonesinghe fired two shots into his own living room - and fired the four shots that killed the businessman.
Why do they write this way????
Yeah, that sentence gave me a headache.
Grammar is NOT A PART OF JOURNALISM SCHOOL....................
As taught by ‘journolism skools’. Like politicians, they use weasel words, so that they can twist their words into anything they want.
As stated by BJ Klintoon, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is. If the—if he—if ‘is’ means is and never has been, that is not—that is one thing.”
“Why do they write this way????”
Because they are illiterates and they have no editors?
You can bet all these scribblers have college degrees, and their communications skills are worse than those of a guy from 100 years ago with a grammar school education.
ESL?…
That writing is nowhere near as bad as some I’ve read lately. The sentence structure makes sense.
Why? Because they are college graduates and colleges / universities do not teach journalism (or any other discipline) any longer. Now they teach wokism, social justice, CRT, and leftist indoctrination. Doesn’t matter if you can read, write or use critical thinking skills to earn a degree. You just need to spew the correct political thought and you graduate with honors.
Meh.
The generation who was indoctrinated instead of educated is now well-entrenched in most journalism jobs.
The ones who were smart enough to see through the indoctrination or were home-schooled are probably too smart to want the stench of a journalism career on them.
Because the author is an uneducated moron.
That sentence lost me too.
Because journalism is dead.
In the rush to report the story first, news media put out garbage without proofreading or fact checking.
I was surprised this was from the UK Daily Mail. The sentence is incomprehensible.
Do you know any journalism students? They are semiliterate at best. As are the editors.