Dammit, Gannett
I planned to fritter away most of this week’s Fly on the Wall column having a goof on WMC’s time machine.
See, this well-intentioned tweet notes that the city of Memphis was created 199 years ago (in 1819) and goes on to note that WMC has been “in love ever since,” even though the 70-year-old media company was founded in 1948.
But who has time to dwell on that while Memphis still has a dying daily newspaper to kick around? Especially when that newspaper has a time machine of its own.
And instead of going back in time and not completely screwing itself up, the Gannett-owned sadness brought back Houston High’s 2015 soccer team to win the state championship.
This weird and probably misplaced act of heroism seems to have adversely affected the timeline, devolving Gannett’s copyediting staff to the point they can’t spell the name of their own damn newspaper.
