Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 19:17:51 -0500 From: Grant Barrett
Subject: RE>Re: New York vowels From: Donald M. Lance > The
University of Missouri boasts of the first (true) and best (I
really > don't know) school of journalism in the world. MU
J-students > systematically avoid both linguistics and cliches
like the plague. So the > Metro Gnome who wrote the cutsie
NYPost piece on New Yawk vowels is in good > company. That's
sarcasm, right, Donald? As a former University of Missouri-
Columbia journalism student, I feel confident in saying that MU
journalism students love cliches and other worn writing devices
like they love their mothers. Things always "spark" in headlines
(I'm waiting for the headline "Satan Sparks Armageddon").
"Debates are always "raised." Durn near every story has the word
"issue", "debate" or "controversy" in it, as if readers needed
to be cued into the multiple sides to the issue. No MU
journalism student ever met a third-person story he or she
wouldn't rather write in the first person. My favo