tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post110541566416486395..comments2023-11-10T16:19:46.880-05:00Comments on Blogslot: Dot Dot DotUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post-1105747195978657782005-01-14T18:59:00.000-05:002005-01-14T18:59:00.000-05:00Bill:
This points out the other pedantic sillines...Bill:<br /><br />This points out the other pedantic silliness I hear in some quarters: insisting that attribution must go between the two sentences in a two-sentence quote. In the example you use, I would much prefer:<br /> "I really don't think it's a good idea. ... And I'm not going to support any such move," he said. At least then it is absolutely clear what was going on (and it should give us cause to pause and ask whether the ellptic form is the best quote, as Merrill does).<br />Now, if it is two quotes separated by minutes of other stuff, then the honest way is, as you note, not to share one attribution but to give each its own.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16156896794811327893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post-1105668902110960812005-01-13T21:15:00.000-05:002005-01-13T21:15:00.000-05:00I hope you're not an editor, Felix, because -- put...I hope you're not an editor, Felix, because -- putting it as gently as I can, and speaking from long years of experience -- you have no idea what you're talking about. Selecting the quotes to use from a long interview is part of the reporter's job, and it has nothing to do with making it appear somebody said something they didn't say. One is reporting, and the other is making things up. Most newspapers that aren't sold at supermarket checkout stands try to avoid making things up. <br /><br />To call an insistence on accurate reporting "pedantic questions of sequencing" is bizarre, and defending it with "If it clearly gets across what the person was trying to say, no harm, no foul" is, well, idiotic. We don't report what people were "trying to say," we report what they said. That's a basic distinction.<br /><br />Apologies for the tone of the post, but geeze.Brida Connollyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14178566241074051057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7122549.post-1105460556741767142005-01-11T11:22:00.000-05:002005-01-11T11:22:00.000-05:00Do you think the way a reporter reports "A. Blah b...Do you think the way a reporter reports "A. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah [five-minute coffee break]. Blah blah Blah. B" and "A. B" should BOTH be:<br /><br />"A," he said. "B."<br /><br />I don't.Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01512881095588291721noreply@blogger.com