pipsqueak1984@lemmy.ca to Canada Guns@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agoGUNTER: Violent criminals with illegal guns are the problemtorontosun.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down115
arrow-up13arrow-down1external-linkGUNTER: Violent criminals with illegal guns are the problemtorontosun.compipsqueak1984@lemmy.ca to Canada Guns@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareGrasslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoI skimmed the article but still have no idea what gunter is
minus-squareDerisionConsulting@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoThe author of the article, Lorne Gunter. So the headline is the author quoting and attributing themselves.
minus-squareGrasslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoIt didn’t occur to me that anyone would do that.
minus-squareDerisionConsulting@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoYeah, I groaned when I realized
minus-squarepipsqueak1984@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoHe’s not quoting himself, see my other comment.
minus-squareLostWon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoIt seems to be a pattern for all their columnists. You can see for yourself if you click the “Columnists” link near the top. It’s a Sun tabloid, is it not? So this is the tabloid equivalent of branding for a radio personality.
minus-squarepipsqueak1984@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoHe’s not quoting himself, that’s how the Sun stylizes the titles of all their opinion pieces. National Post does it quite similarly: puts the name of the author ahead of the title.
I skimmed the article but still have no idea what gunter is
The author of the article, Lorne Gunter. So the headline is the author quoting and attributing themselves.
It didn’t occur to me that anyone would do that.
Yeah, I groaned when I realized
He’s not quoting himself, see my other comment.
It seems to be a pattern for all their columnists. You can see for yourself if you click the “Columnists” link near the top. It’s a Sun tabloid, is it not? So this is the tabloid equivalent of branding for a radio personality.
He’s not quoting himself, that’s how the Sun stylizes the titles of all their opinion pieces.
National Post does it quite similarly: puts the name of the author ahead of the title.