<blockquote><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica ,sans-serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Drew4AU: Got the memo yet? Reporters are supposed to write write whatever they want to. It's part of developing a unique voice -- or something else having to do with "powerful storytelling." They teach you all about it at the National Writers Workshop, so it must be true.<hr></blockquote><p>This would be funny, except that it was the de facto policy of one of my former employers. There they called it "writing as people speak." Unfortunately, the "people" most of the paper's reporters used as their role models obviously were semiliterate morons.
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