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Very picky ep |
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agree and disagree |
| Date Posted: |
06/01/2005 |
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Is the EP changing your stories around to make them better, or to fit his/her personal political agenda?
Worked with one EP who wouldn't allow the use of "prisoners" in any story about Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo Bay. Politics aside, alternating "prisoners" and "detainees" is simply a better read. But the producer was hell bent on not calling them prisoners. Hey, if you're rounded up by the local Barney Fife, thrown into Otis' cell, then released/cleared the next day, during the time you're in custody you're a PRISONER.
That said, the EP is probably trying to help you. But sometimes there IS an alterior motive. |
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Agree with prisoners versus detainees. Not with 'alternating them is simply a better read.' If you have to say 'prisoners' five times in a :30 vo, okay, you have to say it five times. That's what real people would do. Viewers are not sitting at home saying 'good god, he didn't use any synonyms, hide the women and children!' A king is not a monarch on the next reference, a Pope is not a pontiff, and so on. Oh my, and this flashes me back to newspaper days when some poor headline writer rookie kept using "solons" instead of legislators ...... ergh.
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