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New York Times editing cuts mean doing more with less. Will credibility suffer?
 No. And after reading this article, not for the reason you imagine, either. The last thing a fish discovers is water.[Poynter.org] The internet went nuts Wednesday when President Trump tweeted an unfinished, unpunctuated thought with a mysteriously misspelled word -- "Despite the constant negative press covfefe" -- leaving the world bewildered over his meaning. Trump’s Twitter feed and official White House statements are notorious for such typos -- misspelling "attaker," asking "How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones," promoting "lasting peach" in the Middle East -- glaring errors that raise broader questions about the reliability of his message and underscore the importance of an extra set of eyes on anyone’s prose. Attaking speling and grammer is the last refuge of these scoundrels. Posted by: gorb 2017-07-07 |
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