"Too big to edit" is a real problem in literary world: star writers start writing longer, more sprawling, ill-conceived & undisciplined works: King, Ellroy, Rowling. Now also a problem in journalism!
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iirc (because it's been decades) I always tried as a copy editor to inject *more* id and YOLO attitude! usually worked quite well
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That attitude is pretty rare.
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I think I am done with politics because I am exhausted with the circular firing squad of the left. We will never defeat the right because the left will always do the right's dirty work for them.
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You are willfully ignoring that there is always an ideological aspect to editing. Readers can decide for themselves without gatekeepers and filters. This is what Greenwald was talking about.
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When I talk to students interested in journalism, I always tell them “your editor is your friend.” Thinking your writing is too good for editing is clinical narcissism.
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Everybody needs an editor -- I used to copyedit reports of post-PhD scholars. They needed me.
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I've seen more editing mistakes in the books I've read in the past six months than I probably saw in the previous five years.
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"Freudian", not "psychological". Or "executive function" if you like. We're not writing for 60s NY here! Really? "navigational skills"? What about "constraints" or "guidance"; "navigational" implies a single best route. "not as a necessary" - parallelism to mute ambiguity.
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This doesn’t seem to be what occurred at Vox and you know it
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Yglesias’ style was known before fore brevity. It’s the broad work environment.
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