{"id":693750,"date":"2010-03-17T05:18:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2010-03-17T05:18:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:18:58","slug":"ap-editors-slander-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/693750","title":{"rendered":"AP editors slander authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Yahoo News headline shocked Bethany M.: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100316\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/cb_haiti_earthquake\">Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath<\/a>&#8220;, 3\/16\/2010.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-2188\"><\/span><br \/>\nThen she realized that the headline writer meant <em>rape<\/em> to be a noun rather than a verb, and she was even more upset.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case someone wakes up and changes this classic crash blossom:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/YahooRapeVictims.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/YahooRapeVictims.png?w=475\"  title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The same AP headline ran unchanged in the Washington Post and elsewhere:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/WaPoRapeVictims.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/WaPoRapeVictims.png?w=475\"  title=\"Click to embiggen\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bethany may also be distressed to read that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nursingtimes.net\/whats-new-in-nursing\/news-topics\/health-policy\/nurses-to-be-offered-training-to-help-rape-victims\/5012672.article\">Nurses to be offered training to help rape victims<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Yahoo News headline shocked Bethany M.: &#8220;Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath&#8220;, 3\/16\/2010. Then she realized that the headline writer meant rape to be a noun rather than a verb, and she was even more upset. Just in case someone wakes up and changes this classic crash blossom: The same AP headline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Utw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}