Passing the buck.

Via BlogSFERICS we see this amusing tale – well, amusing to everybody except the poor LA Times reporter who wants people to make that he was writing about “an incomparably glorious and goofy pro-life paean” instead of “an incomparably glorious and goofy anti-abortion” one. One of those automatic replacement of phrases thing (the opera in question wasn’t about abortion at all), which the editor wasn’t thrilled to cop to, and… oh, just read the article, and remember: Context Is Your Friend, especially when you’re an editor with a routine.