Local Man Writes Story
From time-to-time, as Fishbowl scours the web, print, and TV for interesting items, we come across a things that, while interesting, just baffle us:
For instance, we’re not entirely sure about what prompted this story in the Washington Post today, but it certainly does a good job of getting to the heart of the story about how many newspapers refer to local men as, well, local and, often, male.
Local Man is newspaper shorthand for somebody who lives nearby and has done something noteworthy but isn’t famous enough to identify by name in a headline.
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