4sight Health October 9, 2024
I worked with a reporter years ago whose writing style was so complex structurally that his stories were nearly impossible to edit. Not that his stories didn’t need editing. All reporters need a good copy editor to make their copy better. It’s just that his writing was so complicated, trying to do even just a light edit would risk introducing errors or topple his version of an inverted pyramid to the ground.
Changing a word or phrase or sentence in one part of his article could change the meaning of a word or phrase or sentence in another part of his article despite being many column inches away from the thing that you wanted to change in the first place.
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