{"id":583,"date":"2004-02-26T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=583"},"modified":"2004-02-26T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T08:00:10","slug":"nitpick-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/nitpick-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitpick of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editorandpublisher.com\/eandp\/news\/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000444544\">story on the BaltSun&#8217;s new editor, <\/a>in Editor &#038; Publisher.<\/p>\n<ul>The most unique move, creation of a demographics beat, is based on the paper&#8217;s need to improve coverage of the city&#8217;s changing population, the editor said. <\/ul>\n<p>Two points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Unique cannot be modified because it means &#8220;one of a kind.&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>My employer has had a &#8220;Race and Demographics Team&#8221; for several years. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This is just careless writing that was missed on edit (or, I shudder to think, introduced by an editor; lately I never assume the writer is to wholly to blame for the words we see).  Maybe not such a big deal but it goes to show why our professors harped on precision in word choice. The wrong word <i>can<\/i> introduce fact errors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the story on the BaltSun&#8217;s new editor, in Editor &#038; Publisher. The most unique move, creation of a demographics beat, is based on the paper&#8217;s need to improve coverage of the city&#8217;s changing population, the editor said. Two points:&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/02\/nitpick-of-the-day\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}