At my local B&N I checked the Kristol editorial in this week's W.Standard. I wanted to see if the print version matched the web version. In particular, I wanted to see if the questionable excerpt (shown in the side-by-side) is the same. It is.
The local Knight-Ridder McNewspaper was astroturfed by a conservative frequent writer who plagiarized Kristol. My two-hundred-words-or-less parry&riposte should be in the morning paper. My 473 word version was a beauty. The letters editor wrote me a note, which was a nice touch, so I did a re-write for length. I wacked off a hundred words without much pain, but every word after that hurt.
I wasn't able to provide as much backup as I wanted for each of my assertions. And I had to take out a paragraph that fell into the category of balestra&lunge. The Sept 10, 2002 quotaton about "all the instruments of national power across the whole world" tends to be an eye-opener. But I didn't have room to bring in a second topic.
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The local Knight-Ridder McNewspaper was astroturfed by a conservative frequent writer who plagiarized Kristol. My two-hundred-words-or-less parry&riposte should be in the morning paper. My 473 word version was a beauty. The letters editor wrote me a note, which was a nice touch, so I did a re-write for length. I wacked off a hundred words without much pain, but every word after that hurt.
I wasn't able to provide as much backup as I wanted for each of my assertions. And I had to take out a paragraph that fell into the category of balestra&lunge. The Sept 10, 2002 quotaton about "all the instruments of national power across the whole world" tends to be an eye-opener. But I didn't have room to bring in a second topic.
- mark 6-10-2003 6:43 am