----- Original Message ----- From: "Bloomquist, Bret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> As a journalist who makes many mistakes on an every-day basis, let me offer > my thoughts. > > Unless you're talking about the Dallas Morning News, sports departments are > tremendously understaffed and overworked. We don't have time to craft > stories and triple-check every fact we put in a story like we should. As Andrew Marvel said to his coy mistress, "Had we but world and time enough..." Same with magazine writing and book writing. Time and money rules. At some point you have to stop researching and hand in your work. Too late you will find out that some of the stuff you weren't sure about and could have used was OK but the copyediting, proofing is done and the publisher won't assume the costs of redoing the page layout. Tom Derderian
