Word Up! DCF has grammar police
Category: Word Press
MIAMI -
At first, I thought he was kidding.
The call from the 850 area code (Tallahassee) turned out to be a rep from the Department of Children & Families. I figured he was returning my calls about the now-fired caseworker for a baby who died, about follow-through on family services, about the breakdown of a system...
Nope.
The DCF press guy had one question. It was a question about a word. One word.
"Really?" I asked. "Really."
His DCF brass wanted to know why I chose a particular word -- an adjective -- in one of my reports this week.
Think about that. The hierarchy of the state agency responsible for the most vulnerable among us, dealing with another high-profile case of a dead baby, directed their press guy to investigate, call and challenge one word one journalist used in one report.
"Respected."
They took issue that I described the now-fired investigator Shani Smith as a "respected veteran." Sure, she's a veteran of the department, they acknowledged, but they thought the word "respected" was an "editorial comment."
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Word Up! DCF has grammar police
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