So as long as there are no quotes, it's an indirect quote and can be altered when summarizing? Is this a standard editorial practice or one used on a editor by editor (or organization by organization) basis?
Either way, as you can't show quote marks on the radio, another thing I'd add to the list of words not to say on air is "X said" unless it is the actual, word for word quote. In my example, the government official called the subject a terrorist while other news outlets replaced the T word with one of the following: commander of the Palestinian faction Hamas, militant, Hamas operative, Hamas commander, and Hamas official. I love the first one as Hamas is just a "Palestinian faction" in their eyes even though they are the government of Gaza. I wonder if they consider the Republican party an American faction? Operative is another favorite. Operative of what type? What type of operation did he perform? On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > if the official said exactly that then it should be in quotes. An > indirect quote is usually used to summarize long boring segments or > when the reporter is not entirely sure of the wording. > > terrorist is specific enough to always be in a direct quote and imho a > serious enough thing to say about someone that it should not be used > outside one unless the person has either bragged about it or been > convicted of it ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:313442 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
