Okay, I write a lot of media criticism about very important topics, botched stories which could change the fate of nations and all that. Now, admittedly this is a silly story, about which nothing really matters at all. But it’s such a monumentally botched headline I just couldn’t help writing a post about it.
Here I am with my wife trying to enjoy some rare hours in the evening when our four month old Sam is actually asleep. And I go to the CNN page to catch the latest news. And what do I see but this shocking headline: “Howard K. Stern hires lawyer in JonBenet case.”
So I’m thinking, holy crap, first he’s accused of killing Anna-Nicole’s son, then Anna-Nicole, now it turns out he killed JonBenet too? I mean, it’s like he’s a one-man serial killer on the payroll of Star magazine. So I click through the link not quite sure what I’m going to find.
But alas it’s rather more prosaic. Stern is hiring Lin Wood, who represented the Ramsey family in the JonBenet case to sue media companies he says are “falsely implicating him in the death of the former Playboy Playmate and her son, Daniel.”
So I guess that would be more like lawyer from the JonBenet case rather than in the JonBenet case. Ahhh, my kingdom for a preposition, or a brain.
