Pre-packaged Quotes
“. . .[T]he quotation is the last refuge of spontaneity in an age of endlessly
managed messages. When quotations can be unilaterally taken back, the
Kabuki is all but complete. . . .” “Journalism in its purest form is a transaction. But inch by inch, story
by story, deal by deal, we are giving away our right to ask a simple
question and expect a simple answer, one that can’t be taken back. It
may seem obvious, but it is still worth stating: The first draft of
history should not be rewritten by the people who make it.”
—David Carr, media writer, “The Puppetry of Quotation Approval,” The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2012
Related: Jeremy Peters, “The latest word on the trail? I take it back,” New York Times, July 2012
(Thanks to alert WORDsters JudyVanSlyke Turk and 3 others)
• Editorial Comment: So much for the independent watchdog. If we can’t use actual quotations of news sources, aren’t we all fiction writers?
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News from our award-winning student news site, The Hard News Café
• Mountain Crest girls trounce Logan in volleyball region play, by Curtis Lundstrom • Scarecrow fest marks Nibley’s sister-city bond with English village, by Danielle Manley
• Smithfield fundraising run ‘more work than cookie dough’ but worth it, by Katie Swain
• Richmond says thanks to volunteers with an annual barbecue, by Heidi Vaughn
• Aggie BluePrint: Aggies grow in DC internships, by Rhett Wilkinson
• No paycheck yet for many hopeful USU students, by Misty Inglet
• Aggie TV News (video): USU construction, West Nile research, Aggies sports . . .and more!
• Democratic guv candidate Cooke: ‘Take back control of your state’, by D. Whitney Smith
• We remember: 11 years later, wounds of 9/11 still fresh in U.S. culture, by Natasha Bodily
• Waste bin trashers in N. Logan can be fined $1,000, council says, by Jessica Sonderegger
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