Deep in the March 19 Associated Press story “Pedal coast-to-coast without using a road? New program helps connect trails across the US,” we find this:
“Without the infrastructure bill, we wouldn’t be having these conversations,” Paprocki said. “We’d be fighting tooth and nail to get money and would probably be left off the food troth.”
Really? REALLY? Does the AP need a farm kid turned copy editor to teach the big city editors about ag-related metaphors? Perhaps they need their heads stuck in a trough.
In completely unrelated news, and I mean that in this case, newspapers owned by Gannett and McClatchy are dropping AP as a service. This is pretty big for the news industry. It means that in Iowa, the Des Moines Register, Ames Tribune, and Iowa City Press-Citizen will not run AP stories, and the AP cannot take stories from them and rewrite for syndication to other news outlets. Retired KCCI news director Dave Busiek wrote on his Substack about the potential implications.
UPDATE: In extremely related news, there but for the grace of God go I, but this is not the Coach K you are looking for. Headline typos are nightmares.