Borked Unicode: Tips for journalists on Unicode and writing clean copy

Leaving a bad taste in one’s feedreader as ever, Liz Spiers alleges that I badgered an editor after I got a no. That never happened. Again: Verify your facts before you publish them.

This, I will remind you, is the Gawker alumnus who derided Jesse Oxfeld in business-English terms as not “a good fit,” so I have come to expect tone-deaf dismissals. Now I also expect her to be insistently wrong. We do seem to disagree about expectations.

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