Monthly Archives: November 2002

Scum Advocate

The local newspaper really, really bothers me sometimes. Maybe I’m must nitpicky, but there are often a lot of small inaccuracies printed in the paper. In this article, it describes an accident involving a semi and a “mid-1980s Ford pickup truck,” and this picture is displayed next to the article:

Late '70s Ford

Anybody with half a brain and a little knowledge about Ford trucks could tell you that the truck pictured is clearly a mid-late 1970s Ford (looks like a nice one–probably a 3/4-ton). If it was a better picture, I could tell you even more precisely, but I can’t tell if the headlights are round or rectangular. Anyway, you’d think that if a reporter was going to throw in a minor detail, like the year of the vehicle involved in the accident, that they’d at least make some attempt at getting it correct. Well, at least they didn’t put an apostraphe in “1980s.”