Bus plunge

Bus plunge

Bus plunge stories are a journalism phenomenon of reporting passenger bus mishaps in short articles that invariably describe the bus as "plunging" from a bridge or hillside road. The phenomenon has been noted in the "New York Times", which once published as many as 14 "bus plunge" stories per year in its foreign news section. The stories made the news not because of their perceived newsworthiness, but because copy editors could edit the details into a few lines and use them to fill gaps in the page layout. The adoption of computerized layout tools has reduced the need for such filler stories, but news wires continue to carry them. [cite journal
last=Schafer
first=Jack
date=2006-11-13
title=The Rise and Fall of the 'Bus Plunge' Story
work=Slate
url=http://www.slate.com/id/2152895/nav/tap1/
accessdate=2006-11-21
]

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*Journalese

External links

* [http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/ WISQARS - Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System]
* Counter example: a 10 metre drop probably justifies the use of "plunge" - same incident two links: [http://www.streathamguardian.co.uk/archive/display.var.519570.0.0.html] and [http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/archive/display.var.349630.0.miracle_escape_in_bus_plunge.php]
* [http://users.lmi.net/tcs55/index.html Bus Plunge !]


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