Re: "USA! USA! USA! ..."
- From: "Jeffrey T. Spaulding" <explorer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:52:43 +0200
In article <1122529162.792601.28070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ekurth@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I go to the Yahoo website, and I'm stunned when I look at the current
> events part on the right side because the headline reads that Grant
> Hackett smashed Ian Thorpe's Swimming World Record. They only have a
> few line items there, so I never would have believed that swimming
> would make it onto that short list of current events. They have a
> nice story about the 800m race, and they talk about the epic battle in
> 2001 in Japan, where Thorpe beat Hackett and took the record.
I think Yahoo selects current events for you based partially on your
past selections. Big Yahoo is watching. Double plus good.
> So I eagerly log onto usa-swimming and the headline reads, "Jensen sets
> new American Record". So Jensen got the headline even though he lost
> by about seven seconds. And about in paragraph five it says the race
> was won by Hackett in world record time. I'm sure virtually every
> national swim federation is like this - talking up their swimmers to
> the exclusion of others. But if a world record falls, shouldn't that be
> the headline?
>
> Eric
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