{"id":5491,"date":"2015-06-14T21:45:58","date_gmt":"2015-06-14T21:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/12\/05\/twitterverse-snickers-at-apt-byline-on-reuters-article-about-french-mens-sperm\/"},"modified":"2015-06-14T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-14T21:45:58","slug":"twitterverse-snickers-at-apt-byline-on-reuters-article-about-french-menssperm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/5491","title":{"rendered":"Twitterverse snickers at apt byline on Reuters article about French men’s sperm"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/andrewmseaman\/status\/276169366784057344\n
Yes, really. Somewhere in the Reuters newsroom, an assignment editor is doing his best Beavis and Butthead imitation.<\/p>\n Reuters medical journalist Andrew Seaman was among the first to mock his own byline on the “French men not producing as much sperm<\/a>” article.<\/p>\n\n\n I had to write about this study, my name’s on ít – sort of. Via @reuters_health<\/a>: French men not producing as much sperm reut.rs\/Vzg2NU<\/a><\/p>\n — Andrew M. Seaman (@andrewmseaman) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n People don’t think I’m real?! (see comments) MT @boingboing<\/a> French spermcount down dlvr.it\/2b6Hp4<\/a><\/p>\n — Andrew M. Seaman (@andrewmseaman) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Other Twitter users couldn’t resist joining the fun. Because really, who among us doesn’t have an inner 12-year-old boy?<\/p>\n\n\n Look at the headline. Look at the author’s name. reut.rs\/WJ2kHf<\/a> (h\/t @bendwalsh<\/a>)<\/p>\n — Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n “French men not producing as much sperm”, by Andrew Seaman #aptbylines<\/a> reut.rs\/VwmYPB<\/a><\/p>\n — ben walsh (@BenDWalsh) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Surely a joke. Or this is the one story he’s been waiting his whole life to write. Check out the byline in this storyreuters.com\/article\/2012\/1…<\/a><\/p>\n — Richard James (@richjamesmetro) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Another classic of nominative determinism here: reuters.com\/article\/2012\/1…<\/a><\/p>\n — Paul Hearns (@Paul_Hearns) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n The right man for the job! “@lucytweet1<\/a>: LOOK AT THE BYLINE French men not producing as much sperm reut.rs\/WHP19V<\/a> via @reuters<\/a>”<\/p>\n — Sue Truslove (@Suebloss) December 5, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n Indeed.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/12\/05\/twitterverse-snickers-at-apt-byline-on-reuters-article-about-french-mens-sperm\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/andrewmseaman\/status\/276169366784057344 Yes, really. Somewhere in the Reuters newsroom, an assignment editor is doing his best Beavis and Butthead imitation. Reuters medical journalist Andrew Seaman was among the first to mock his own byline on the “French men not producing as much sperm” article. I had to write about this study, my name’s on ít – … Continue reading Twitterverse snickers at apt byline on Reuters article about French men’s sperm<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n