wildly inappropriate metaphors used by journalists

Seventh Avenue in Park Slope just got its second Vietnamese sandwich shop — four blocks from the neighborhood’s first — and not since the Vietnam War has there been as juicy a story of spies, secrets, lies and Vietnamese families torn apart.

At least this time, the collateral damage is delicious...

http://brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/34/32_34_gk_vietnam_war.html

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holy shit lol

haha wow. yeah, that is exactly the sort of thing you are supposed to think of while writing, laugh quietly to yourself about how ridiculous would that be if I actually put that in there, and then not put in there

I mean, you KNOW at least a handful of Vietnamese people are going to read it

like, the folks who run those two stores

yes, exactly -- not that this should make a huge difference but like folks the authors just talked to in the process of doing the article. (I don't know about daily journalists but usually ... if you're writing about someone and they're the only concrete people you know will read the article, it sends up a red flag on sentences that might make them think you're a dick, right?)

otoh, it's the Brooklyn Paper. In the print edition, it's ON THE FRONT PAGE, and all those levels of rong just leapt out at me.