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By JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
To mangle something, says Webster’s, is “to spoil, injure, or make incoherent.” Sad to say, many professional newsrooms have their manglers, and some of them write for The Associated Press.
The AP filed a story out of Charlotte, N.C., about a man who owned four rottweilers. A woman was responsible for keeping the dogs locked up. The dogs escaped and mauled a 4-year-old girl. Reported the AP: “If Ms. Hunter and Brown agree to relinquish ownership of the dogs, they will be euthanized after a 10-day observation period.” Pretty tough, I would say, on Hunter anil Brown.
The AP’s bureau in Stockholm filed a story in February: “Air piracy charges were filed Sunday against a man who used grenades to hijack a Russian airliner and his wife.” Pretty tough on the wife.
From Los Angeles, the AP reported that pop megastar Michael Jackson suffers from a skin disorder that destroys his skim pigmentation. "He insisted he had ‘very little’ plastic surgery during a live television interview with Oprah Winfrey on Wednesday.” Seems a strange time and place for plastic surgery, but you never know what to expect from Oprah Winfrey.
The AP’s man in Bartlett Cove, Alaska, had a problem with a sentence in Novemeber. His mangle was a dangle: “Entering the bay from Icy Strait, the mountains are covered with lush forests of spruce and hemlock.” When the AP reports that mountains enter bays, the AP is on to a highly readable story.
The mangle of the month for May came from the AP bureau in Austin, Texas: “A man who confronted a stranger in her home with a knife and claimed she consented to sex because she asked him to wear a con
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