Showing posts with label proofreading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label proofreading. Show all posts

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Litigation without defendants?

In the interest of quality journalism, I offer two interesting notes from Library Journal's recent post about Georgia State University being sued:

Is the issue over 6700 words or 6700 works? There is a slight difference between the two.

Who, exactly are the plaintiffs? The author of the article identifies 7 individuals/organizations, 3 on one side and 4 on the other. He also says that they are all plaintiffs.

There is also a minor error of punctuation in the first paragraph, but I will let the editors of Library Journal find it.

This will be an interesting case to watch, even after the errors in LJ's article are fixed.

Post script: The original date of the article was 4/16/08. On 4/21/08 "6700 words" was changed to "6700 works." The plaintiff issue still stands.

Second post script: The defendants were finally identified correctly late this morning (4/22/08).