Wemple Whacks Wil

Washington City Paper’s Erik Wemple continues his one man assault on the Washington Post by pointing out their writing flaws, including four against the Post’s Wil Haygood.

From Haygood’s original piece…

It was like going to hell and back,’ said Bernadette Washington, 38, a black homemaker from Orleans Parish who had slept under a bridge the night before with her five children and her husband. She sighed the familiar refrain, stinging as an old-time blues note: ‘All I have is the clothes on my back. And I been sleeping in them for three days.’” — “‘To Me, It Just Seems Like Black People Are Marked’” by Wil Haygood, 9/2/05

…and Wemple critiques:

Blues notes soothe; bees sting.

More of Wemple’s criticism here.

Personally, I find this one amusing:

The entertainment industry has discovered there is power, power, product-moving power in selling movies, books and music through churches — particularly the suburban megachurches that draw thousands of well-heeled worshipers.

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