Silliest Chron lede in a while
Earlier in the week, the Chronicle's Alexis Grant reported the following:
The fraudulent use of disabled-parking hang tags in Houston is so pervasive that some disabled motorists are supporting a restriction on their parking access to curb the abuse.
As we pointed out previously, cracking down on fraudulent use of disabled-parking hang tags is laudable. However, restricting the parking access of those with legitimate disabilities will do nothing to "curb the abuse," as Grant put it (and is something we find offensive, honestly, although opinions in our forum vary).
Connecting two separate issues in the lede to suggest that cracking down on legitimate disabled parking access will curb the abuse of disabled parking hangtags seems like an unfortunate bit of writing/editing.
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/02/06 11:54 PM | Houston Chronicle | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (2)
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