CINCINNATI - Cincinnati’s only black news source celebrated 50 years this week by only printing three stories in it’s online edition.

One story in particular, written by Dan Yount, about former jockey Jimmy "Wink" Winkfield, resembled a grammatical and structural Hindenburg (not unlike this article) by quoting the jockey in the title and then giving no further reference to it in the actual story, thus leaving the reader in a state of bafflement.

Cincinnati State English Professor, Geoffrey Woolf read the story and was outraged by Yount’s lazy writing style. (Although Woolf was unreachable for comment, I lifted comments that he made from an old research paper that I did for one of his classes and simply replaced any reference to my paper with the Herald references.)

"First of all, the title to your paper is terrible, Winkfield: ‘gentleman on the ground, demon in the saddle', has nothing to do with the story. If Winkfield in fact said ‘gentleman on the ground, demon in the saddle’, I would like to know what it was in reference too", said Woolf. "Secondly, there is a quotation error in the title. This is the worst paper I have ever read. Sorry Mr. Chowder, you have failed this term."

Owner and publisher Eric H. Kearney could not be reached for comment but I am guessing that he would have said that 50 years of history gives him the right to be lazy and to make mistakes in a publication that his loyal readers take seriously. And I am sure he would go on to say that his readers only deserve three stories (one ripped from the AP about a guy with no Cincinnati ties) because nothing ever happens in the black communities of Cincinnati.