News > Meryl Yourish on Corey Pein's CJR Rathergate Story
Meryl Yourish, whose career has been in publishing and typesetting, critiques Cory Pein's Rathergate story from the Columbia Journalism Review. She makes it exceedingly clear how unlikely it was that a 1972 memo could be trivially reproduced using Microsoft Word's default settings.
Amazingly, Pein refers to Joseph Newcomer, a critic of Dan Rather and the phony memos, as a "self-proclaimed typography expert" and comes to the defense of David Hailey, a believer in the memos. That's exactly backwards. Newcomer was the real thing - an authority on typesetting who pioneered the field - while Hailey teaches technical writing.
Posted by lesjones