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more washington post fun time
yesterday's ombudsman column included a bit where a reader wrote in to say it's Just Wrong that the post doesn't customarily transliterate the 'al' (or 'el') part of Arabic surnames -- and she brought it to the attention of the news division and they're revisiting the issue and making some changes. go, reader!
so i wrote to her about the general problem i've been having with photo captions for several months. i mean, facts are facts, aren't they?, and relating them wrong is relating them wrong, whether the text is an article or accompanying a photograph. wales isn't in england, rachel weisz wasn't in the english patient, and there's no such goddamn thing as a 'parashooter'. if you can't get the ombudsman on your side with the idea that it's important for a well-respected newspaper not to look illiterate, then whom can you get on your side?
... in any event, that felt good, too. :-)
also, GIP.
so i wrote to her about the general problem i've been having with photo captions for several months. i mean, facts are facts, aren't they?, and relating them wrong is relating them wrong, whether the text is an article or accompanying a photograph. wales isn't in england, rachel weisz wasn't in the english patient, and there's no such goddamn thing as a 'parashooter'. if you can't get the ombudsman on your side with the idea that it's important for a well-respected newspaper not to look illiterate, then whom can you get on your side?
... in any event, that felt good, too. :-)
also, GIP.