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May 6, 2005
O' Shakespeare! Something is Rotten in the State Of Journalism
Letter to the Editor - All right, I admit to being a hopelessly old-fashioned pedant, but still ... I've been troubled of late by an apparent surging flood of journalistic indifference to little things like grammatical exactitude and simple fact-checking: a theatrical review of a play, which happens to involve a flock of sheep in the plot, where the reviewer displays her erudition by using the word caprine to describe them.
All right, I admit to being a hopelessly old-fashioned pedant, but still ...
I've been troubled of late by an apparent surging flood of journalistic indifference to little things like grammatical exactitude and simple fact-...
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