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]]> By: Michael http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/newspaper_style_guides/comment-page-1/#comment-512827 Michael Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:09:34 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/?p=25173#comment-512827 How exactly do you enforce such a policy, especially across a news organization as big the NY Times? Do you even want to strictly enforce something like that, or leave it up to report/editor discretion? I mean, I could whip up a perl script that used a pre-defined list of names of important people, and flagged every occurrence in an article, under a variety of formats, for specific review, but that doesn't solve the problem, it just makes it easer to follow the current lack-luster solution. How exactly do you enforce such a policy, especially across a news organization as big the NY Times? Do you even want to strictly enforce something like that, or leave it up to report/editor discretion?

I mean, I could whip up a perl script that used a pre-defined list of names of important people, and flagged every occurrence in an article, under a variety of formats, for specific review, but that doesn't solve the problem, it just makes it easer to follow the current lack-luster solution.

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