One of my pet hates

is the journalistic practice of using nouns as verbs. (Maybe I should have written that as verbing nouns.....)

I'll be generous & put it down to the sub-editor—do they still have sub-editors?—part of whose job is to come up with a snappy headline. & most of those I've noticed tend to appear in the business pages.

But it's spreading. In the entertainment section of today's N.Z.Herald:

US band to helm fundraiser for
stroke-hit godfather of NZ rock