Reuters ran a story about a man biting a dog in December , and the AP ran a story about a woman biting a dog. The Geelong Advertiser ran a story in November titled "Clifton Springs man bites dog to save his best Buddy" about a man who bit another dog to save his own from an attack.
As another example, reversing the myth of cow tipping , in January , a cow in Boulder, Colorado, reportedly knocked a woman off her bike and stepped on her legs. The Associated Press wrote that, "It's not another instance of cow-tipping. In this case, it was the cow that did the tipping. In December a newspaper in Illinois printed a compact version of the maxim credited to an anonymous city editor. This citation was located by top researcher Barry Popik and is listed in the key reference The Yale Book of Quotations: 4 5 6.
In an editorial in a Denver Colorado newspaper used a pun on the word dogmatically while attributing the maxim to another well-known newspaper editor named Horace Greeley 7. In an anecdote was recounted in which a battle broke out at a peace conference.
This startling reversal was presented as an archetype of newsworthiness. The turnabout-based canine adage was also mentioned with an ascription to Charles A. Dana: 8. For lo! This yarn takes place side by side with Charles A. If a man bites a dog, that is news. In the famous newspaperman Arthur Brisbane made remarks to a gathering in New York that included the maxim together with a comically mordant addendum: 9.
Arthur Brisbane, the editor, praised, at a dinner in New York, the educative value of moving pictures. But, if a man bites a dog, it is. In the adage was credited to Charles A.
It was the late Charles A. The maxim was ascribed to John B. Bogart, a worker at the Sun. He remembers it so well because princes of the blood like him don't normally go to Pizza Express. Well, we know that royal princes have hour protection when travelling, and the security detail will have records for where he was, even down to which building, at all times. So if he really wants to clear his name, all he has to do is to publish the security detail's records for that date.
That really would be a headline story -- if still a pretty petty one. Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. A large majority of people lack confidence in measures to prevent Covid from spreading during this year's Loy Krathong Festival and are unsure whether to take part in it, according to an opinion survey by Suan Dusit Rajabhat University, or Suan Dusit Poll.
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Keywords international law dog bites man dog bites security detail. My jolly witticisms, ready on demand, never got used and have long languished in desuetude. Not only that, but I haven't seen any stories about man-bites that got written by other reporters.
The man-bites-dog story finally needed attention, and it turned out to be a great deal less newsworthy than Editor O'Brien had foreseen. Our local newspaper didn't even put it on the front page, but buried it on Page Three under a colorless report that the Town of Thomaston has a new flag. It's hard to believe. After all these years! What breed of journalist do we have today that isn't hep on dogs that get bit by men?
What in heaven's name do our schools of communications teach nowadays? What does an editor say to his fledglings to fetch them along in the secrets of the trade? That was it. Who was this woman who took precedence? She threw a cup of coffee in a man's face on Elm Street in Camden, and gave the police four false names when they asked who she was. When she gave her right name, she was released. There she goes, the heroine of the year, the lady with five names who is more important than the man bite.
Can you believe that the incompetent reporter and the sleeping editor gave us only one name? And didn't tell us the name of the man who got the cup of coffee? Police found the man inside the home and biting the Skaling's dog. That's it! July 30, was, indeed, a Wednesday, and we must commend the reporter for his accuracy.
But what kind of a dog, and what was his name?
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