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    While I don't want to become deeply involved in this two-fisted
saga, there is a simple economics test for this whole question. What's
wrong with that approach?

    Test:  Who can do the job more quickly and less expensively?

    While this may not give credit to the total skills of the individual
worker, the objective of the team is to win the game, while enjoying
playing, in the least number of innings. If a writer has multiple
deadlines and is well paid, he/she ought to stay away from wasting
precious, limited time fiddling around formatting things that can
be done more quickly and less expensively by someone else.

    Division of labor is old-fashioned but still often makes economic
sense, even when it isn't exactly labor.

Don

At 02:51 AM 8/29/96 -0400, S. Finer wrote:
>Really fine writers are pretty rare, and I do respect them.  But asking
>writers to take more responsibility in formatting will not destroy the
>profession.  Far from it.  This tack, proclaiming the writer's job too
>taxing for cross-training, I suggest, disguises other motives, newsroom
>rice-bowl motives.  In some newsrooms, I am sure my suspicions are
>unfounded, but in others.......


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