Thursday, December 01, 2016

Rephrase this, I think ...


Despite that I enjoy more relaxed diction and phrasing in contemporary reporting, as an editor I feel someone should have given this sentence as second look:

On the reports that [Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk] are expecting their first child, which came after Shayk killed it on the runway for Victoria's Secret Wednesday night.

Yes, I know what the writer meant, but still...

Or maybe it’s just me. I have been marking student writing nonstop for the last week ...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Teehee.

And I just teased our favourite photographer for using the hashtag #filmshooterscollective.

Fourteen for ever,
C