Melissa Locker is a Terrible Writer
As a foreword to this, I’d like to publicly state that I don’t think highly of my own writing. I don’t think my writing is of the caliber published in most major publications. But I know bad writing when I read it. And for the past couple of months, a weekly feature in amNewYork has been the biggest waste of editorial space I have ever seen in a newspaper - even for a free newspaper that has made its share of poor decisions. The feature, by Melissa Locker (”Special to amNewYork?” You bet she is!), is a preview of what’s on primetime television each night of the week. Is it comprehensive? Not by any means. Is it informative? No more so than your cable box’s on-screen program guide. Does it take itself seriously? Clearly not. But is it funny? Not even remotely.
Rather than run through this feature’s problems line-by-line, I will simply provide a clipping from today’s edition that pains me to even publish in jest on my own blog.
In two short sentences, Locker manages to offend, bore, and alienate all at once. Apparently, this is what passes for journalism these days. God help us all.
This entry was posted on Monday, November 12th, 2007 at 5:01 pm and is filed under amNY Watch. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Mjones says:am New York: murdering the English language one day at a time
November 13th, 2007 at 2:03 am
Jen says:Living in Colorado, I don’t see that much of amNY. But in helping a friend unwrap packaged belongings, I found plenty of use for amNY: it makes really, really good cushioning for breakables in a long move.