• Words That Drive Me Crazy #1

    Words That Drive Me Crazy: Today’s entertainment headline, stuffed at the bottom where Paris Hilton news usually goes, was today’s blog fodder: Van Halen to announce their reunion tour. When I took journalism class, there was a unit/lesson about writing headlines. Half of it is enticing the reader to read, the other half is communicating the message in the most succint way possible. All of it was about writing the truth.Now I don’t know whether it’s the fault of the journalist, or the fault of Van Halen’s publicists (lord knows there’s nothing redeeming about their lot), but here’s a little tip about English. If you are about to announce something,…