The New York Times Needs A Copy Editor

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If what I read today at The Caucus blog is any indication, then I must assume The New York Times is hurting on its bottom line worse than any published reports might indicate — it appears the newspaper can no longer afford to pay copy editors!

I reached this conclusion after reading the first three paragraphs of David D. Kirkpatrick’s piece, Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort. In particular, I reached it after reading the nonsensical first sentence of the third paragraph.

That sentence appears as text below as it appeared on the blog when I read it at approximately 10 p.m. CST. In case you don’t believe it’s accurate, I’ve included a screen shot of the top portion of the article and inserted it immediately below the text of the suspect participants spoke on condition of anonymity because the both the Council for National Policy and the smaller meeting were secret, but they said members of the intend to publicize its

Hopefully, the editorial staff at The Caucus — and, in particular, Mr. Kirkpatrick — will notice and correct the glaring typographical errors in this piece before too many thousands of folks are forced to decipher the bungled wording of paragraph three and, I suspect, in other paragraphs that follow. Personally, however, I couldn’t force myself to read beyond the journalistic atrocities of the third paragraph. See if you can. To do so, click here.