"In Harris"

[MidtownCoog]

Has anyone else noticed the trend in the Chron and also in TV news when referencing Harris County?

Lately they just say "In Harris".

That just seems sloppy and lazy.

Example:

Mobile food vendors in Harris face tougher rules

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...ro/4900830.html

[nativehou]

I hadn't noticed. But it would seem to me to be journalistically erroneous to leave out County.

[RedScare]

Not sure what you are talking about. The headline and article say "Harris County" all the way through.

They left "County" off of the front page link so that the link would only take up one line. That is not laziness. It is webpage efficiency.

Edited June 19, 2007 by RedScare

[sevfiv]

the rss says "in harris"

Edited June 19, 2007 by sevfiv

[MidtownCoog]

Read the front page from Chron.com and also the top of your browser's status bar.

They left "County" off of the front page link so that the link would only take up one line. That is not laziness. It is webpage efficiency.

Whatever, dude.

And that's why there are story lines that are longer right below it. They still have more real estate on the screen.

Houston & Texas

Mobile food vendors in Harris face tougher rules

Nation

Survey: Parents would back stronger limits on media violence

And Ch 2's Rachel McNiel said the same thing last week. What the hell is she trying to save? Brain space?

Edited June 19, 2007 by MidtownCoog

[RedScare]

Sounds like a topic for a Dennis Miller rant.

[MidtownCoog]

I am a freak like that.

[RedScare]

Me, too. Just not on this one.

[Subdude]

Gotta agree with Coog. Little journalistic cliches like that are always annoying.

[RedScare]

Gotta agree with Coog. Little journalistic cliches like that are always annoying.

You're just being contrarian.

[Vertigo58]

All those shortcuts came as a result of being trendy with the advertising era of saying crud like

KFC, BK, Mickey D's, etc. Truly pathetic.

Wish it would end.

[editor]

Chances are it started out in the newspaper, and the TV stations are picking up on it because one of the managers thinks it sounds cool.

Also, I totally buy the "saving web space" theory. Some of the content management systems the newspapers use only allow them to type a certain number of letters in for a headline. Some will automatically take out articles and other low-priority words to save space.

Also, the RSS feeds read from the same database as the web articles, so it only makes sense that the word would be dropped there, too.