We Gonna Be Championship!’

[Zvon]

d'Kong76 wrote: I have to call the NYTimes and re-activate my Fri-Sun weekender thing. I like to read the paper on the porch. Tablets, phones and laptops... too much glare and bad for the eyes.

PC screens have taken their toll on my eyes big time, worse than TV ever did. Course I'm talking about when PC monitors were small, deep things. I'm not a fan of devices for the net just for that reason. Too small.

[Ceetar]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I don't expect the younger generation to appreciate newspapers the way we do, but to be so dismissive of them is just arrogant and ignorant.

arrogant maybe. Ignorant, maybe not. I understand what newspapers are. You're entitled to like them, I'm not taking that away from you. But it's nostalgia and comfort and personal preference. And that's fine. You don't have to enjoy the best of everything, or the most efficient of everything. You don't only have to read the best stories or watch the best tv shows. But it's not dismissive to embrace improvement. And I'm not denying that it's a black and white issue that modern media delivery systems are better than the old ones across the board, but you don't really see society start to adopt change and then go 'fuck it, we had it better before'

There's an ingrained institution that's ingrained because it was there first, because it's older. But as the original article pointed out, some of the quote-correcting is actually kinda racist. It's not really arrogant to think we're actively thinking about and working on ways to make the news facet of entertainment a little more fair. A little more inclusive.

[Zvon]

You should be running for President Ceets.

[Ceetar]

Zvon wrote: You should be running for President Ceets.

next time. not eligible this iteration.

[MFS62]

Back to the topic of editing the quotes, isn't that what "sic" after the quote is for? Why don't they quote the words as spoken and use "sic"? It solves both problems - it shows the quote as spoken and also allows the editor to demonstrate that it is not grammatically correct.
Or is it considered insulting if they do it that way?

Later

[Edgy MD]

Sometimes, yes, it is insulting.

"Sic" (usually expressed in brackets and italics like "[sic]") basically clarifies that something that appears to be a mistake by the writer is not. That can be an apparent spelling error, grammatical error, or factual error.

Basically [sic]s rain from the sky whenever a writer has to turn in a story from a Donald Trump rally.