{"id":297,"date":"2006-12-03T00:11:35","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-12-03\/297"},"modified":"2006-12-03T00:11:35","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T15:11:35","slug":"the-most-ironic-news-headline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-12-03\/297","title":{"rendered":"The Most Ironic News Headline"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

I couldn't help but to laugh at the irony when I saw<\/span> this Associated\nPress article on Yahoo!\nNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Considering how pejorative<\/strike> offensive the term “Xmas” is (it is, after\nall, “Christ<\/b>mas” with “Christ” X'ed out),\nyou can't help but question the journalistic integrity of the writer (Tom\nBreen) and Associated Press.<\/p>\n\n

Take this headline in comparison: Ariz.\ncop had black men rap away ticket<\/b><\/a>, which, like the first, is\ncurrently on Yahoo's “most\npopular news<\/a>” list. I don't<\/span> think anyone would put up with this\nheadline rewritten as “Ariz. pig\nhad black men rap away ticket<\/b>”<\/span> or “Ariz. cop had niggers rap away\nticket<\/b>,”<\/span> so why do people put up with “Xmas”?\n\n<\/p>\n\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Derek commented<\/a>\nthat the use of “Xmas” shouldn't be a problem<\/span> because (1) it\ndoesn't bother him, (1) it's only a newspaper<\/span> headline, and (3) my argument\nis not meaningful because I used<\/span> the word “pejorative” instead\nof “offensive” or “insulting.”<\/p>\n\n

I have to admit that I used “pejorative” even though I knew<\/span>\n“offensive” was probably more appropriate, because I liked<\/span> the\nring to “pejorative”. \ud83d\ude42<\/b> However, as to\n“Xmas” not being offensive or insulting, well, if you can't\nimagine that crossing out the whole point of the holiday<\/b> would be\noffensive to those who still consider that point, I'm not sure<\/span> I can<\/span>\nexplain it to you. (And along the same lines, using a word<\/span> that's offensive\nis fairly pejorative, no?)<\/p>\n\n

I understand that Christmas has no religious meaning to many, and that's\nfine, but it doesn't reduce the offensive nature of “Xmas.” I'm\nnot a police<\/span> officer, but I consider<\/span> “pig” to be offensive. I'm not black<\/span>, but I consider<\/span> “nigger” offensive. Even if you're\nnot Catholic, I would<\/span> expect you to consider “Xmas”\noffensive.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I couldn't help but to laugh at the irony when I saw this Associated Press article on Yahoo! News:<\/p>

Considering how pejorative offensive the term \"Xmas\" is (it is, after all, \"Christ<\/b>mas\" with \"Christ\" X'ed out), you can't help but question the journalistic integrity of the writer (Tom Breen) and Associated Press.<\/p>

Take this headline in comparison: Ariz. cop had black men rap away ticket<\/b>, which, like the first, is currently on Yahoo's \"most popular news\" list. I don't think anyone would put up with this headline rewritten as \"Ariz. pig had black men rap away ticket<\/b>\" or \"Ariz. cop [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}