Sappy article on Hammond from the California Chronicle.
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/136431033
http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/136431033
Last line and footer said:Richard Hammond's Blast Lab is out on DVD on October 19.
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Er, do people in the US use "jammy" as a synonym for "lucky"?
Er, do people in the US use "jammy" as a synonym for "lucky"?
Either way, I've seen better writing in our crappy campus newspaper. Almost the entire thing is quotes, and it does a terrible job introducing Hammond to a relatively unfamiliar American audience. Even the token jet crash metaphor felt tacked-on.
To be honest though, I would be embarrassed to have my name on that piece of crap at all. No proof reader, no spell check?
Lazy assed employees they got there.
You are aware that the California Chronicle simply reproduced a piece from a British publication, right? The mistakes are all in the original; the Chronicle people were just too lazy to correct them. So, if anything, both were/are lazy.
The crash is mentioned in the first paragraph on this article because this is a feature, and news articles tend to be structured in a very different style - the most important information comes first and old or additional information is relegated to the last few paragraphs, as only about 10 per cent of people read that far.
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