Bait and Switch
Selena Roberts, a tennis writer for The New York Times, has bugged me for years. I can't stand her prose style.
Here she is in Sunday's paper (today's) on Federer v. Nadal (I'm just quoting her lede):
"Forget Roger Federer's aura of infallibility, how he is perpetually aloft on the court, a leaf aboard a breeze."
She goes on to discuss how Nadal has messed up Fed's image, but mercy me, how Selena paints with one color, the color purple. Heck, instead of forgetting all that stuff that SR tells us to, how about we forget the bizarre image: an infallible floating leaflike aura?
He's a Swiss tennis pro, for crying out loud.
What annoys me more, however, if that the NYT sports section runs a victory shot of Amelie Mauresmo, a big shot--then jumps the story to page 4 (page 4!), so we can enjoy the Natterings of Selena beneath, under the "Sport of the Times" rubric, rather than get the dope on the first French ladies champ at Wimbledon in, what? Eighty-two years?
Bad deal. Bad editing. Missed opportunity.
Here she is in Sunday's paper (today's) on Federer v. Nadal (I'm just quoting her lede):
"Forget Roger Federer's aura of infallibility, how he is perpetually aloft on the court, a leaf aboard a breeze."
She goes on to discuss how Nadal has messed up Fed's image, but mercy me, how Selena paints with one color, the color purple. Heck, instead of forgetting all that stuff that SR tells us to, how about we forget the bizarre image: an infallible floating leaflike aura?
He's a Swiss tennis pro, for crying out loud.
What annoys me more, however, if that the NYT sports section runs a victory shot of Amelie Mauresmo, a big shot--then jumps the story to page 4 (page 4!), so we can enjoy the Natterings of Selena beneath, under the "Sport of the Times" rubric, rather than get the dope on the first French ladies champ at Wimbledon in, what? Eighty-two years?
Bad deal. Bad editing. Missed opportunity.
posted by Matthew DeBord at 3:43 PM
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