What’s With the Reuters Headline Guy?
Last week they called Yi Jianlian “China’s Li,” (scroll down) this week it’s “Russia win 2014 Winter Games.” The headline kind of sounds like it is being said by a Russian. “Russia win Winter Game.” I know what they’re trying to say. The Black Sea town, Sochi was awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics Wednesday. But accompanied with this photograph of a celebratory Soviet, it kind of looks like Russia really did win the whole damn Olympics, the ones taking place 7 years in the future. Like they did with the erroneous Yi Jianlian headline Friday, Reuters quickly corrected their headline. There might be an opening pretty soon for a headline writer down at the Reuters office.
•Reuters: Russia Awarded 2014 Winter Games