RE: Linguistic Overreaching

Subject: RE: Linguistic Overreaching
From: "Fetzner, Bill" <BFetzner -at- amsuper -dot- com>
To: 'Al Geist' <al -dot- geist -at- geistassociates -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:29:49 -0400

Al Geist writes: <<If you
think technical writing is frustrating, try being a beat reporter for a
daily newspaper for six months, or worse, a freelance stringer charged
with supplying text and photographs. Take your vow of poverty first.>>

Aha. So that's why there's so much ideological distortion in the newspapers.
Maybe they should pay reporters and stringers more so we'd get text and
photographs with better balance and objectivity.
~ Bill
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