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Writing in the paper, legendary editor CP Scott set the ground rules: “Comment is free, facts are sacred”
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For the “wannabe New Yorker” in the Indian Press, it would help to remember what Ved Mehta (who was a staff writer with The New Yorker for 33 years, 1961-94) said about the rigours of editing in the New Yorker of his days. In November 2009, while interacting with the staff of The Indian Express for the paper’s Idea Exchange feature, Mehta said: “Not a word appeared in The New Yorker which hadn’t been scrutinised by 16 readers. And many of these readers were master proofreaders, grammarians. When you picked up The New Yorker, you got the most finished piece of writing that was available at the time.”