A recent story in The New York Times reminds us of the power of dialogue, and how easy it is to build a news story around it. The headline of the page one story is: Tapes of Shuttle’s Descent Show ...
Keeping things vague for a purpose and being unclear about what to say are two different things. As a writer myself, being stuck on vague ideas sucks. It slows you down and makes your writing dull.
As far as anyone could remember, it had never happened before: the same article was published simultaneously in the Protestant weekly Christian Century and the Roman Catholic weekly Commonweal.