The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Wednesday, July 16, 2003  

AMBASSADOR WHO?
What Passes for Procedure on New York Avenue

This is Journalism 101. Actually, it’s not even Journalism 101. It’s grunt work for interns.

Listen, when a newspaper or magazine receives a letter to the editor the publication considers printing, a telephone call is made directly to the writer to ensure that he or she is: (1) a real person; (2) actually wrote and submitted the correspondence; and (3) intended the publication could reprint it.

That’s how things work in the real world. It takes all of five minutes.

At the Washington Times, however, they’re so thrilled by the notion that anyone not walking about with his or her knuckles scraping the ground actually reads the paper, they’ll print anything, no questions asked.

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