According to Jason DeParle, we can “pick any headline in the news, and between the lines, there is a chapter in the story of global migration.” This rather awkward sentence raises two questions: How can I find something “between the lines” of a “headline”? And what “chapter” am I supposed to find “in the story of global migration”? Of course, it is obvious that I am alerted to the fact that I could pick any news story and discover that it is somehow connected to global migration. Alas, it is the writer’s – often torturous – job to make a clear statement not the reader’s to sort it out. Still, I took the author’s advice and two days later looked at some headlines. This is what I found: Efforts on Bicycling Also Attract Thieves and Effort Uses Dogs’ DNA to Track Their Abuser.
Dear New York Times,
there are no efforts on anything, and efforts don’t use anything either. Besides, although there may be efforts to promote bicycling that also attract thieves, and dogs’ DNA may be used in an effort to track their abusers, neither story included a line connecting it to global migration – unless some of the stolen bikes made it across the border.
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