In a message dated 10/1/2008 10:00:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
It's the same problem we have in our fiction articles as we get grotesquely long plot summaries - people narrate things event by event instead of tracing major threads, and treating the article like an argument with a thesis statement and evidence to back it up.>>
-------------------------------------- I'm a bit of the camp that these things work themselves out over time. The more editors you have in one article, the more grammar and style. I work on a few articles, detail by detail to make them smoother. It doesn't help however when someone like Britney keeps making news and then we get another dozen new editors adding bits here there and all over messing up my beautiful narrative!
Okay I don't think I've ever worked on her, there's only so much time and there are so many scandals!
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2008/10/2 WJhonson@aol.com:
I'm a bit of the camp that these things work themselves out over time. The more editors you have in one article, the more grammar and style. I work on a few articles, detail by detail to make them smoother. It doesn't help however when someone like Britney keeps making news and then we get another dozen new editors adding bits here there and all over messing up my beautiful narrative! Okay I don't think I've ever worked on her, there's only so much time and there are so many scandals!
Yeah. The problem I see is we don't have the luxury to take it that slowly.
OTOH, Britney Spears is very famous and a reader coming to the article may well expect the public meltdown to be documented reasonably.
It's all a tricky one, and there's no substitute for good editorial judgement, as always.
- d.