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		<title>Don&#8217;t Forget To Proofread</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama spoke in Dover, New Hampshire the other day, and since (a) that&#8217;s only one town over from me and (b) I wasn&#8217;t there, I was eager to read the local paper&#8217;s report on the event.
As I read through, I saw two instances where the reporter, Robert M. Cook, left a string of question [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Barack Obama spoke in Dover, New Hampshire the other day, and since (a) that&#8217;s only one town over from me and (b) I wasn&#8217;t there, I was eager to read the <a href="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080913/GJNEWS_01/709136932/-1/">local paper&#8217;s report</a> on the event.</p>
<p>As I read through, I saw two instances where the reporter, Robert M. Cook, left a string of question marks (??????), which I saw as him missing his own notes to return and clarify a piece of information.</p>
<p>The best, though, was his parenthetical notes to himself in one of the final paragraphs:</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">[Obama] added that people who make less than $250,000 a year would not have to pay any additional <strong>(more than now? how does that help?)</strong> payroll taxes, federal income taxes or health insurance taxes.</span></p>
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<p>The bold highlight is courtesy of yours truly.</p>
<p>Yes, folks, we&#8217;re deeply entrenched in the Internet age where a few minutes delay can make the difference between a popular article and one that is ignored by the masses, but do you really want to risk publishing something like <a href="http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080913/GJNEWS_01/709136932/-1/">this</a>? Let&#8217;s hope it&#8217;s at least edited after-the-fact &#8212; that&#8217;s one benefit of the Internet, after all.</p>
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