More sensational than sex, nudity, or gratuitous violence—(at least to people who care about word choice, sentence structure, and quality of composition) Tim Parks plants a stake firmly in the ground about the need for *intelligent* editors and editing in the era of cacophony. Is your stake in the same ground?

In Praise of the Language Police by Tim Parks | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books.

I consider Parks’ argument a continuation of the discussion started by Vanessa over at Cecile’s Writers