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'Reconciliation': Isn't it a Beautiful Word?
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Sounds like your dinner companions are as vulgar, classless as you are Marty.
Sounds like your dinner companions are as vulgar, classless as you are Marty.
Very interesting article, Marty.
This was particularly enlightening:
"Things can get a little muddy when a suspect seems unlikely to face trial—because he's dead, for example, or hiding out. In those cases, newspapers have to make a judgment based on how much of the story they have been able to verify. The decision is usually made by a senior copy editor or the managing editor, sometimes in consultation with lawyers."
So lawyers are the silent co-writers of news copy. I am not surprised given the quality of the writing in most dailies.
Here is another article on news writing which might interest you:
“We Need 'Philosophy of Journalism'” By Carlin Romano
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Very interesting article, Marty.
This was particularly enlightening:
"Things can get a little muddy when a suspect seems unlikely to face trial—because he's dead, for example, or hiding out. In those cases, newspapers have to make a judgment based on how much of the story they have been able to verify. The decision is usually made by a senior copy editor or the managing editor, sometimes in consultation with lawyers."
So lawyers are the silent co-writers of news copy. I am not surprised given the quality of the writing in most dailies.
Here is another article on news writing which might interest you:
“We Need 'Philosophy of Journalism'” By Carlin Romano
http://chronicle.com/article/We-Need-Philosophy-of/49119
Oh and btw, it sounds like you have fascinating dinner companions.
People at a dinner table can say what hey want. Media outlets, especially since Sheppard v. Maxwell, do the public well to be more circumspect.
Don't know Sheppard v. Maxwell, Marty? Walk across the Yard or whatever it is there to Dershowitz's office and ask him.
Of course, there is a way to speak the truth without pronouncing the judgments which the nature of our mass media must, in the name of public responsibility, mute before a verdict is reached at a criminal trial. But with so many bloviaters, Sabbath gasbags (© Calvin Trillen), and over the top bloggers avidly watched and read by people like me with nothing better or no greater energy to do, precise language that would do no better th ... view full comment
People at a dinner table can say what hey want. Media outlets, especially since Sheppard v. Maxwell, do the public well to be more circumspect.
Don't know Sheppard v. Maxwell, Marty? Walk across the Yard or whatever it is there to Dershowitz's office and ask him.
Of course, there is a way to speak the truth without pronouncing the judgments which the nature of our mass media must, in the name of public responsibility, mute before a verdict is reached at a criminal trial. But with so many bloviaters, Sabbath gasbags (© Calvin Trillen), and over the top bloggers avidly watched and read by people like me with nothing better or no greater energy to do, precise language that would do no better than not make George Orwell wince is hard to come by.