On 1/18/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/17/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Fans of the Wet Wet Wet frontman Marti Pellow were left stunned yesterday after the online encyclopedia Wikipedia reported that he had died last
The word "reported" is very telling of how we are still misperceived. We're not a news site. Why do people think we are?
Hmm. The alternative word would be "stated". Reported makes it sound a bit less bad, at least to my ears...
Maybe I would even prefer "was reporting". If you picture Wikipedia as a whiteboard with people wandering past writing stuff or rubbing out stuff, would you say it "said" or "did" something? Or would you say "was saying"?
In this case maybe "was claiming" would have been the best.
Steve