Hmm, Maybe Blogs DO Need Editors

Adam Nagourney of the Times leads by example and makes the case for stricter editing of blogs, or at least, the NY Times "Caucus" blog.  Let's mock his coverage of Hillary's debate debacle over drivers licenses for as-yet-undocumented aliens who may have friends or relatives that vote.

First, let's have a "Headline versus Text" smackdown - here is the headline:

A Day Later, Clinton Embraces Spitzer’s License Effort

And in the text, with emphasis added:

Mrs. Clinton’s aides said her statement was intended to signal that she broadly supported Mr. Spitzer’s goal of awarding driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. Mr. Spitzer initially proposed a blanket program of awarding full-fledged driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants; in the face of sharp opposition from the Legislature, he backed off and presented a two-tier program system of awarding licenses to illegal immigrants.

Mrs. Clinton’s advisers said that she had not studied either plan, and was not specifically endorsing either of them.

And in the Tracks of My Tiers category, how about a Text versus Link face-off?  Mr. Nagourney notes a two-tier system while helpfully providing a link to a description of a three-tier system.  Or for brevity, let's cut to Ms. Clinton's description of the revised Spitzer plan:

SEN. CLINTON:  Well, what Governor Spitzer has agreed to do is to have three different licenses; one that provides identification for actually going onto airplanes and other kinds of security issues, another which is an ordinary driver's license, and then a special card that identifies the people who would be on the road.

No one who read the debate transcript could have made that mistake.

Comments

[Sue]

Tracks of My Tiers

How do you do it? When there's no one around?

[Neo]

a special card that identifies the people who would be on the road

What does this mean ?

Sort of reminds me of John Lennon ..
why don't we do it in the road

[Neo]

Will al Qaeda members in the USA get their own cards ? What about Hamas, Fatah and Hezbollah ?
For that matter will there be vanity cards for Sandinistas, Black Panthers, Tupamaros, Viet Minh, Bosnians, Tamil Tigers, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Janjaweed, Fedayeen, and Earth First-ers ?

As a matter of speaking truth to power, this is important.

[Rick Ballard]

Glasater linked this voter fraud answer as to why 7 out of 8 Democrat candidates for the Chief Magistrate's job prefer giving a helping hand to illegals.

Reading that comments section on the replacement for Clymer's blog leads me to think that this is a decent issue to flog for a bit.

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