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Thursday, Dec 21
Jacob Weisberg on Romney, Mormons, and Elected Office--In Two Places at Once
The Slate piece gives the reader a little more history (he recommends Fawn Brodie's biography of Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS church) and a little more pop culture (Big Love, for example). The Financial Times piece, both in the print and in the on-line versions, is shorter, but the really key point appears in a stand-alone paragraph, while the same sentence in Slate is tucked into a longer paragraph. Describing Joseph Smith, Weisberg wrote: He was an obvious conman. Mr Romney has every right to believe in conmen but he should not be running the country if he does. And that really lays it out, doesn't it? And in the print version, it's the pull quote. The difference of content between the two pieces is most likely due to space concerns, but the formatting differences make the Financial Times version far more hard-hitting. Email This Post |
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