Emme, a blogger I follow semi-routinely had the headline "Ain't No Party Like The Detroit Party". I remember seeing that in a news article, as in, an attempt at something resembling serious journalism, highlighting the victory parties in Detroit for the Pistons. (Rock on Pistons)
The fact that a journalists use words like "Ain't" in a news story is just distressing. I recognize a language has to grow and change, but won't someone, PLEASE!, stand up for some standards in English?
I think Emme was just having "fun" with the English language. I do agree with you that journalists should be more formal in their writing but I think the style depends on the story line. How can you be upset about "ain't" when Emme wrote "Also, Jimmy Kimmel can eat my ass and call it puddin'" in the story?
I thought the ass-eating part was the best part of the post, but I'm probably biased.