Investigative Voice: PER(S)NICKETY — Sun’s copy blog charges Investigative Voice with being too hard on ‘alleged’ serial killer

PER(S)NICKETY — Sun’s copy blog charges Investigative Voice with being too hard on ‘alleged’ serial killer

Friday, 04 February 2011 01:04

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‘VETERAN DRUDGE’ (BY HIS OWN ADMISSION) McINTYRE
CHASTISES I.V. FOR NOT USING ‘OUR INDOOR VOICES’
WHEN  REPORTING  ON  BRUTAL RAPE  AND MURDER

SUN EDITOR TAKES UPSTART WATCHDOG WEBSITE TO TASK

Don’t  rape and attempted murder  already  suggest  violence,
so that violent killing spree is just some more heavy breathing?
— Former head of Baltimore Sun Copy Desk John McIntyre

In a public plea for placid prose, sometime Baltimore Sun Copy Editor John E. McIntyre this week reprimanded Investigative Voice Senior Reporter Stephen Janis for not using his inside voice — no pun intended — in a news brief recounting the conviction of “alleged” serial killer William Vincent Brown.

In his periodic blog, “You Don’t Say,” McIntyre took I.V. to task for using incendiary language to describe Brown’s crimes of raping, strangling, and cutting off a woman’s ear, noting that Janis flouted copy decorum while describing the acts that McIntyre alleged deserve more delicate treatment.

“It would also be a good thing if we could write about it using our indoor voices,” The Sun‘s night content production manager said.  ... http://investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7126:persnickety-suns-sometime-copy-editor-charges-investigative-voice-with-being-too-hard-on-alleged-serial-killer&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44

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