[Ads-l] self-incriminate

Andy Bach afbach at GMAIL.COM
Mon Mar 4 19:23:57 UTC 2019


> I tried to see the story to find the context, because the headline is
quite unclear, but there's a paywall.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/02/race-whisperer-seizes-control-american-neo-nazi-group?CMP=share_btn_link
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article227029654.html

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 1:09 PM Mark Mandel <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, ungrammatical. I tried to see the story to find the context, because
> the headline is quite unclear, but there's a paywall.
>
> Mark Mandel
>
> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 1:57 PM James A. Landau <JJJRLandau at netscape.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday March 3, 2019 page A5 had the headline
> > "Taking on haters from the inside: A black civil rights activist took
> over
> > a neo-Nazi group and has moved to self-incriminate it."
> >
> >
> >
> http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/ODN/PhiladelphiaInquirer/Default.aspx
> >
> > Is it just me, or is there something ungrammatical about this headline?
> >
> > - Jim Landau
> >
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