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Glater exonerated in yachting-story mishap

By Mark Obbie

On Sunday, I dinged Jonathan Glater of the Times for incompletely telling the tale of an America's Cup yachting dispute between two billionaires. Today's Times puts the blame where it belongs: on Glater's editors. The updated version of the story includes a correction that explains what I found lacking. It's the responsible thing for the Times to do for its readers, and for Glater. But what's with the passive-volce construction -- "the details of the legal dispute were deleted during the editing process"? As if it was all a mystery, rather than saying an editor deleted the details. This reminds me that I shouldn't assume that the bylined writer committed a writing crime. I sometimes speculate that the blame lies either with the writer or his editors, but I didn't do that in this case, and so I apologize to Glater.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).