Proving that bad writing breaks the writer’s “conversation” with the reader, I stopped when I read this in today’s recap of yesterday’s Phillies/Nationals game:
Michaels spoke over a blaring Linkin Park/Jay-Z collaboration that blared over a battered boom box he found earlier in the day amid some junk in the bowels of RFK.
Blaring music that blared? Who’da thunk it?
The unnecessary use of alliteration is what ticks me off. You don’t see the great writers – Hemingway, Steinbeck, CLIFF – showing off like that.