Friday, March 20, 2026

PBS, sheesh

An intertitle from tonight’s PBS NewsHour :

Zohran Mamdani is the second-youngest New York City mayor in history; the youngest was Hugh J. Grant who became mayor in 1889 at just 31-years-old.
Better:
Zohran Mamdani is the second-youngest New York City mayor in history; the youngest was Hugh J. Grant, who became mayor in 1889 at just 31 years old.
I’d be willing to cut “in history,” but I wouldn’t be thinking about that if the punctuation had been right.

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