Legal Writing

A copy editing scandal?!?

I have watched the first couple of episodes of HBO's "The Wire" this season because the plot involves a newspaper, a fictional version of The Baltimore Sun. I can't make any sense of the rest of the story because I haven't watched during the other seasons, but I certainly understand the newsroom parts. I was especially interested in a scene in the season opener when an editor, backed up by a rewrite man, explains to a reporter that one evacuates a building or an area, not people.

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Full post as published by Triangle Grammar Guide on January 16, 2008 (boomark / email).