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Message: [QUOTE="Golden Husky, post: 4331421, member: 8090"] On the article, DiMauro is listed as a staff writer, not a columnist. That's a significant difference. I was a GAR (general assignment reporter) for 17 years before becoming a columnist. If you're not a columnist, an editor tells you what to cover. When I was promoted to columnist, I could choose my own topics...and use adjectives! Whatever your title, an adage in the newsroom is "Journalist need good judgment but editors need good taste." Where was DiMauro's editor? If the incident was worthy of review, then it was worthy of naming the "offenders." It wasn't. An editor should have taken a blue pencil to DiMauro's effort and labeled it what it is, petty. I have four daughters, and while it's been decades since they wore pastel-colored dresses with crinolines, I can recall the prom being just about the biggest thing in their lives to that point. Somebody needed to exercise "good taste." [/QUOTE]