The Language of Journalism: Volume 1, Newspaper Culture - Tapa dura

-Editor of Encounter's for 31 years and an idiosyncratic critic, Lasky cares about language use and details its erosion in a meticulous review of US newspapers... Lasky discusses how newspapers overuse split infinitives, profanity, poor grammar, and truncated sentences... Lasky's abundant examples of transgressions suggest journalistic imprecision, indolence, and a degree of malpractice. Entertaining, erudite, well annotated, and exceptionally well written, this is neither a memoir by a veteran journalist, e.g., in the style of Max Frankel's The Times of My Life or My Life at The Times (CH, Oct'99), nor academic journalism criticism. As a commentator, Lasky is more in the tradition of Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and E.B. White. Recommended for libraries supporting English and literary criticism as well as journalism.- --R. A. Logan, Choice -Hugely enjoyable--and valuable. I dropped everything else to read it. A treasure...- --Charles Wheeler, senior foreign correspondent, the BBC "Editor of Encounter's for 31 years and an idiosyncratic critic, Lasky cares about language use and details its erosion in a meticulous review of US newspapers... Lasky discusses how newspapers overuse split infinitives, profanity, poor grammar, and truncated sentences... Lasky's abundant examples of transgressions suggest journalistic imprecision, indolence, and a degree of malpractice. Entertaining, erudite, well annotated, and exceptionally well written, this is neither a memoir by a veteran journalist, e.g., in the style of Max Frankel's The Times of My Life or My Life at The Times (CH, Oct'99), nor academic journalism criticism. As a commentator, Lasky is more in the tradition of Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and E.B. White. Recommended for libraries supporting English and literary criticism as well as journalism." --R. A. Logan, Choice "Hugely enjoyable--and valuable. I dropped everything else to read it. A treasure..." --Charles Wheeler, senior foreign correspondent, the BBC "Editor of Encounter's for 31 years and an idiosyncratic critic, Lasky cares about language use and details its erosion in a meticulous review of US newspapers... Lasky discusses how newspapers overuse split infinitives, profanity, poor grammar, and truncated sentences... Lasky's abundant examples of transgressions suggest journalistic imprecision, indolence, and a degree of malpractice. Entertaining, erudite, well annotated, and exceptionally well written, this is neither a memoir by a veteran journalist, e.g., in the style of Max Frankel's The Times of My Life or My Life at The Times (CH, Oct'99), nor academic journalism criticism. As a commentator, Lasky is more in the tradition of Edmund Wilson, H.L. Mencken, and E.B. White. Recommended for libraries supporting English and literary criticism as well as journalism." --R. A. Logan, Choice "Hugely enjoyable--and valuable. I dropped everything else to read it. A treasure..." --Charles Wheeler, senior foreign correspondent, the BBC