Summary
When readers wrote in to ask how a man could speak in grammatical, standard English in one version when in the other he did not, the paper investigated and came back with the obvious explanation: the reporter had tidied up Portis's English for the printed page, while the columnist published it verbatim. In time, the new pressures will force all of us in this country, journalists and readers alike, to take clearer positions on the fine points of journalistic ethics.
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Our World of Rough-and-Ready Ethics
A few weeks ago the Washington Post carried a story about an American footballer called Clinton Portis, whose career has been blighted by injuries. It quoted him as saying: "I don't know how anybody feels. I don't know how anybody's thinking...
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