Oh those Chron headline writers

March 1, 2006 Kevin Whited BHv1, Commentary
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Here’s a headline from a staff editorial in the Chronicle today:

Snow job: Poor behavior and performance at Turin indicates a need for new attitude — and leadership — in 2010.

It’s impressive when a newspaper’s headline writers haven’t mastered basic subject-verb agreement.

The dead-tree version contained the error as well.


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