by Paul McNamara

News Editor

Headline writers shouldn’t use ‘probe’

Opinion

Jun 19, 20061 min

Atop an AP story carried by Yahoo News last week: “Lawmaker asks DOJ to probe Fannie.”

Now it’s been modified, one would presume by a red-faced editor.

Data Center

by Paul McNamara

News Editor

In addition to my editing duties, I have written Buzzblog since January, 2006 and wrote the 'Net Buzz column in Network World's dearly departed print edition for 13 years. Feel free to e-mail me at pmcnamara@nww.com.

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