Actually, a daily double from Charles Isherwood’s New York Times book review of “Would It Kill You to Stop Doing That?” by Henry Alford:
“The implicit promise of thorough and up-to-date instruction in how to behave isn’t entirely fulfilled by Mr. Alford’s book. Readers looking for an organized primer on which proverbial fork to use in a world that is tossing off new etiquette challenges in tandem with the hurtling pace of technological change may be disappointed.”
As may be Times readers looking for an organized sentence structure.
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Speaking if the Noo Yawk Times: Gail Collins is definitely pranking the folks who make fun of her references to Seamus, Willard’s dog. She did it again this morning.
Too many NYT columnists and reporters–and many at other media outlets as well–have become so enamored with their own words that they have forgotten that there is an audience out there who might actually be trying to figure out what they are saying. It’s not sloppiness or poor writing as much as it is self-infatuation, plain and simple. In other words, they are writing for themsleves and not the reader–never a good thing.
Amen to that, Bill. They’re also writing for their fellow writers as well – also not a good thing.