RTE website using 'txt msg' abbreviations!

Six of One · 23-06-2009, 19:06

http://www.rte.ie/news/index.html

Quote:

Fmr Christian Brother assaulted schoolboys

(19:47) A former Christian Brother has pleaded guilty to 36 counts of indecent assault on pupils at a school in Limerick city in the 1960s.

I'm shocked!

GhostInTheRuins · 23-06-2009, 19:08

To be fair they only have space for a small headline on that page.

Six of One · 23-06-2009, 19:14

I see that. And I also know the content is more shocking than the lack of vowels in the headline! But I still think it's not good enough. Fitting headlines into spaces is what them there media types do isn't it?!

I'd hate to have to read this sort of thing regularly. I thought at first it was a farmer Christian Brother!

*Max Power1* · 23-06-2009, 19:15

To be fair should we not be reading the subject matter, which is a lot more important than whether RTE abbreviate their headlines?

dublintuition · 23-06-2009, 19:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by GhostInTheRuins

To be fair they only have space for a small headline on that page.

They should have shortened 'brother' in that case

Euro_Kraut · 23-06-2009, 19:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by GhostInTheRuins

To be fair they only have space for a small headline on that page.

'Ex-Christian Brother...' would have worked too.

GhostInTheRuins · 23-06-2009, 19:31

Quote:

Originally Posted by Euro_Kraut

'Ex-Christian Brother...' would have worker too.

Yeah that would work.

I can't see any reason why it's shortened on the article page though - http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0623/drummondsj.html

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Six of One Registered User Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 88 Adverts \| Friends	I see that. And I also know the content is more shocking than the lack of vowels in the headline! But I still think it's not good enough. Fitting headlines into spaces is what them there media types do isn't it?! I'd hate to have to read this sort of thing regularly. I thought at first it was a farmer Christian Brother!