We don't pay them to spell
A flashing S.C. Transportation Department sign on my way to work today had this helpful message:
Lanes closed
5-2
threw
5-9
Kind of makes you pine for the corrupted spelling of "thru," doesn't it?
An extension of the Common Sense Journalism monthly column by Doug Fisher, former broadcaster, newspaper reporter and wire service editor. From new media to old, much of journalism is just plain common sense.
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Unknown (often improperly attributed to Thomas Jefferson)
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
"Common sense is not so common" - Voltaire
"Common sense is instinct; enough of it is genius" - George Bernard Shaw
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