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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 03:51 PM
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as articles go, this one needs a little more attention from the editor...
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3180817/

"Robinson says he’s ready and able to do a Hummer."

"After noting he convinced General Motors to produce a civilian version of the 11 years ago, Schwarzenegger said..."

"“We can make a profit off of doing 20 to 30 vehicles, whereas automakers they need thousands,” he says."

Uh, mixing incomplete sentences with sexual innuendo is not a good way to look credible. Especially when Clinton isn't involved... While the article is overall well presented, these mistakes are a little too obvious to have been overlooked by an editor. Surely MSNBC uses editors before publishing articles?

While the idea presented in the article is rather nice, and as much as I want to believe otherwise, our country runs on profit and money. If it costs too much, we don't do it. Even when we should... but that's another post... Oil is more profitable than hydrogen and people don't see into the long term.


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RebelOne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-16-04 03:54 PM
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1. They need a copyeditor.
That's my job. After the editor does his thing with the story, I clean it up and correct grammatical , spelling and punctuation errors. Sometimes have to do some rewriting on really bad stories.
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