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Pittsburgh Journalism

A girl that was a few grades below me in high school with has been found not guilty of beating a woman with a lead pipe because she cut the bathroom line at a club on the South Side of  Pittsburgh.  Story here.

That’s not the shocking part of the story though.  A major metropolitan newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has published the following line:

“Then Ms. Bannon and her crew started jawing with Ms. Talak. “

This is not a quote.  This is a descriptive sentence written by the reporter, Daniel Maloy.  It passed the editor’s desk and was deemed fit for print.  I’m pretty sure before he turned in the story he said “Check this out, you jags.”

March 9, 2009 - Posted by Alex | Things