The Guardian readers' editor Siobhain Butterworth apologises to the paper's own subs today for not calling them journalists.A piece in Butterworth's Open Door column on Monday referred to "journalists and sub editors". Today an item in the Guardian's Corrections and Clarifications column states: "Subeditors are journalists. In trying to distinguish between the roles the column should have referred to writers/reporters and subeditors."
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I think she is right to make the distinction. This is because while most subs are journalists, most journalists are not subs. Her distinction separates the different roles.
@greg watts:
That's a strange logical contortion to defend a simple mistake. Your example is the equivalent of saying 'I enjoy eating fish and tuna'. The sentence construction implies a categorical difference between the objects. Plus it sounds silly.
I think Greg Watts is right. What he said in no way sounds silly. There is a distinction.
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