My RSS reader tells tales on writers, by comparing before and after copy on the posts it downloads. Anything that gets changed is struck out in red, with its replacement added in green. I always keep that in mind when writing as it won’t be the only app that does that, and I don’t want any of my own subscribers seeing what corrections I’ve made.
So there’s some irony in the way it has highlighted the corrections made to a Guardian story about the Independent largely doing away with sub-editors, who are responsible for, among many other things, keeping a watchful eye over the linguistic and grammatical accuracy of a paper’s content.
Take, for example…
And elsewhere…
And thus the Guardian accurately demonstrated the art of good subbing.
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What RSS reader do you use? I’ve seen people highlight changes like that before but have never come across a read which had that functionality.
It’s NetNewsWire, which is now free.