Lack of Editing at Time Magazine
“The winner’s immediate priority should be to try and unify the nation. The signals the president-elect sends in the first few days could go a long way toward reminding Americans, no mater how they may have voted, that we’re all apart of something larger than ourselves.” (Time Magazine)
I ran across these two sentences on Time’s website this morning and was horrified. Michael Duffy, shame on you, and shame on whoever edits and proofs articles that go on the site. As a journalism professor, I can’t bear to see such miserable examples being set for my students by a professional publication.
The correct words and phrases are to try to unify, matter, and a part of.
I can only hope that by the time you read this and check the link, someone will have corrected these errors.
drupagliassotti @ November 3, 2008