[Gnome1949]

This guy claims to be a journalist.

Here is the first sentence of his article:

As a young music journalist, Jeff Beck was on the short list of icons who I really wanted to interview.

The poor sentence structure here is such that Jeff Beck was identified as the young music journalist - not the author.

Proper English would be:

“Jeff Beck was on my short list of icons who I really wanted to interview when I was a young music journalist.”

OR

“As a young music journalist, I had Jeff Beck on my short list of icons who I really wanted to interview.”

You would think being a journalist would require basic knowledge of written English, particularly in the opening sentence of an article he wrote.

[nicollo]

Misplaced modifiers are always fun. I also don’t like the subjective “who” as a direct object.

(Why can’t our subjects keep their hands off our objects? Ahh, the human condition.)