One of the downsides of media consolidation is the propensity of a small error to be magnified. Like this one, for example, from the Nashville Tennessean:
Plan for emergenies
Spring tornado season a good time to make sure you and your family know what to do
Don’t blame staff writer Vivi Hoang. Editors slap the headlines on the stories, and several sets of eyeballs passed over that typo. Unfortunately, because of media consolidation, no one at the Dickson Herald, Ashland City Times, nor Fairview Observer caught it either. Not that they could change it if they wanted to.
I blame Tennessee for being landlocked. They’re not used to have a C around.
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Maybe it’s more of a Redneck thing.
“Look, I tell ya…
Em R Genies!”
And if they drop out of tornadoes, maybe you’ve got to plan for them somehow.
Your fluency in Redneck is astounding. Did you perchance employ the “Rosetta Stone: Redneck Primer” I’ve seen advertised in Skymall Magazine?
“He was a simple farmboy. She was an Italian Supermodel. She only had one chance to impress him.”