Tuesday, July 15, 2008

You're Splitting Hairs, Goldberg.

Jeff Goldberg:

Via the great sage of journalism, Seth Lipsky, I learned a long time ago Peter Kann's rule concerning the first-person pronoun: "No reporter may start a story with the word 'I' unless he's been shot in the groin."

The New York Times reporter Campbell Robertson violated the rule yesterday...



Jeff Goldberg:

Several years ago, I had dinner at Galileo, a Washington restaurant, with Steven Rosen, who was then the director of foreign-policy issues at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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