Thursday, 8 October 2009

Guardian grovel to subs: 'You are journalists'

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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3 comments:

  1. Greg Watts8 October 2009 at 11:42

    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.

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  2. Freudus8 October 2009 at 13:40

    @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.

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  3. Anonymous13 October 2009 at 20:43

    I think Greg Watts is right. What he said in no way sounds silly. There is a distinction.

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