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Poor Journalism

Who would ever write the following:

"Co-workers and supervisors at the Riviera for years subjected Sylvia, 61, to sexually explicit comments, images and behavior as well as age-derogatory comments, jokes and name-calling, the suit claims."

Maybe (if you had any journalistic ethics) you would start the sentence by saying "the suit claims" -- you know, before you get everyone's sympathy. Or before you've described the allegations as fact.

Sure, technically, "The suit claims" absolves them from any lawsuit. But to bury it that deeply in a sentence that has -- wait, let me count -- 5 commas, and those 5 commas in no way differentiate the importance of the clause that closes out the sentence -- well that is pathetic.

WELL, LET ME THINK, SHOULD I USE ANOTHER COMMA HERE, I GUESS NOT, PERHAPS I CAN TELL PEOPLE WHAT A LOUSY EXAMPLE OF JOURNALISM IT IS, MAYBE, WITHOUT AN EXTRA COMMA

Someone should learn how to be a journalist! Allegations should be labeled as such. This article could have been written by my dog!!!!

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