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dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com
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Here's a new one to me. NYTimes.com, in its
Dealbook blog, includes the following:
"Update: Thanks to suggestions from several insightful readers, we've slightly revised the language of this item."
Okay -- that probably means political correctness run amok, since it's an item about Goldman Sachs choosing to include free sex-change operations in its medical coverage. Or maybe it means the item was truly written with some insensitive wording, and was fixed.
Either way, it's fair by me.
When corrections are made to an article they should be enumerated. ("An earlier version of this item incorrectly spelled the name of Mr. Smythe.") But if you're going to "revise the language" due to "suggestions from insightful readers," you also ought to tell us what you said that was -- shall we say? -– less artfully phrased.
