pipsqueak1984 to Canada GunsEnglish · 10 months agoGUNTER: Violent criminals with illegal guns are the problemtorontosun.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up118arrow-down115
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minus-squareDerisionConsultinglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agoThe author of the article, Lorne Gunter. So the headline is the author quoting and attributing themselves.
minus-squareGrass@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoIt didn’t occur to me that anyone would do that.
minus-squareDerisionConsultinglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoYeah, I groaned when I realized
minus-squarepipsqueak1984OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoHe’s not quoting himself, see my other comment.
minus-squareLostWonlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-210 months 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-squarepipsqueak1984OPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months 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.
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.