Nagourney and Zeleney: Grammar Thugs

Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate

Selection Ends Two-Month Search

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who Mr. Obama had defeated in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, had slipped out of contention…

Is pronoun case passé at the NYT? Or do macho Nagourney and Zeleny consider using “whom” too girly for their rockum-sockum copy?

Biden and the Foreign Policy Call

By Mark J. Penn

Mr. Gore complimented Bill Clinton and projected an image of a new generation to government.

The word you want is "complemented" as in “completed.” Good lord. That such language baboons get the front-page, above-the-fold perch signals a march to the swamps of illiteracy.

Posted on Grammargrinch.blogspot.com as a cautionary tale lee drury de cesare