Standards Editor Phil Corbett Wants a Tweet-Free New York Times
Tweet, Tweets, Tweeting, and Tweeted are now forbidden at The New York Times, as The Awl obtained a memo to the newspaper’s writers and editors from standards editor Phil Corbett.
Corbett’s memo, from The Awl:
Some social-media fans may disagree, but outside of ornithological contexts, “tweet” has not yet achieved the status of standard English. And standard English is what we should use in news articles.
Except for special effect, we try to avoid colloquialisms, neologisms, and jargon.
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