Saturday, October 20, 2007
Hats Off to Holy Seeing Eyes
On page A12 of The New York Times of October 18, 2007, I spy this headline:
Pope Names 23 New Cardinals, Including 2 From the U.S.
Is is persnickety of me to opine that "new" is unnecessary in that head (or, if memory [always faulty] serves correctly from my newsroom days: hed)?
Would the pope name old cardinals?
Well, as a matter of fact the new cardinals were on the old side, with five over the age of 80.
They will receive their hats (red, right? I'll ask my friend Greg Tobin, author of Conclave and Council) on November 24.
Hats off to holiness, but not to the venial editorial sin of redundancy.
Talk of Holy See! Editors, mend thy sight!
(Back when I was a newspaper copy editor, in the old days, we couldn't even allow "new record" in a story. Go figure.)
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4 comments:
memory serves you fine, PK! It is hed and lede, and folo, and...I give up.
I'm sick of this s---
P.S. well I got that out of my system, Pawlie. Hope you didn't mind me using such lingua vulgaris on your blog space.
Patti,
Email offline and tell me more, journalistically speaking. Wot paper?
Red and hed are both correct, sir!
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