As I've mentioned before, we at the DG often fight off pangs of remorse for the nasty things we write. Some of us lose entire minutes of sleep over it. We know we have readers who feel our work is unnecessarily mean-spirited, and we certainly don't want this to devolve into anything unseemly.
That means it's your job, readers, to keep us operating at an appropriate level of snark. Prevent us from turning malicious, but also steer us away from complacency.
Reader Jessie G. writes:
"In that "What's Going On?" column, you missed a lot of fodder -
probably because the mistakes are so frequent they've become mundane.
You should check out this paragraph specifically:
Masten, who resigned as mayor the same day Hurricane Katrina made
landfall in 2005, again showed a panache for sharing headlines. The
Adair County Ambulance District Board fired it's embattled chief, Jason
Albert, hours after the court recessed.
I won't address the super-duper-amazing transition and the extra-suave
calling-of-attention to Orear's nose for news, but I'm pretty sure we
worked our way out of "its/it's" exercises by seventh grade. It isn't
even fun to call attention to because it's (its? I don't know ... I
sure hope Word's grammar check is on ...) pretty blatant. But check out
"panache" -- Try reading the sentence with "penchant" instead. Now
there's true subtlety in error."
Jessie, you really know the way to our hearts.
Grego tossed us a slow one, and I let it float by. Let's not skim over his comparison of major headlines, either: Hurricane Katrina... and Jason Albert.
Keep the e-mails comin'. We have a real panache for reading them.
Shit, it is hard to use that word correctly.
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