Buried In That Box You’ve Built

Today, I received an email from the editor of an article Ive been working on for a while. A human interest piece for a local magazine. She told me, in no uncertain terms, that if Im not willing to put words in someone elses mouth, shes going to do it for me and put my name on it. Because this is a puff piece, promotion not actual journalism. Its fine to manufacture quotes when no one is fact-checking.

If thats the kind of writer she wanted, she hired the wrong person.

This is what I hate...