http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2008/01/24/miami-vice/ A multilog with NJJN Editor-in-Chief Andrew Silow-Carroll Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2008/01/24/miami-vice/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Andrew Silow-Carroll Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:26:08 +0000 http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2008/01/24/miami-vice/#comment-95 The author had included the term in the original headline of the article, which was changed upon publication. But you're right -- that's info all the readers deserved, or none. The author had included the term in the original headline of the article, which was changed upon publication. But you’re right — that’s info all the readers deserved, or none.

]]> http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2008/01/24/miami-vice/comment-page-1/#comment-92 Mark Berch Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:50:18 +0000 http://njjewishnews.com/justASC/2008/01/24/miami-vice/#comment-92 Your blog says, "A bipolar child faces his bar mitzva day", but the term "bipolar" or its equivalent does not appear. In fact, the writer apparently decided not to use anything more specific than "special needs"; the description of his travails was carefully non-specific as to what his disorder was, and for the nature of the story, this detail was not important. I think you should not have used that particular term if the author chose not to. Your blog says, “A bipolar child faces his bar mitzva day”, but the term “bipolar” or its equivalent does not appear. In fact, the writer apparently decided not to use anything more specific than “special needs”; the description of his travails was carefully non-specific as to what his disorder was, and for the nature of the story, this detail was not important. I think you should not have used that particular term if the author chose not to.

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