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To: scott_jiminez who wrote (10851)	3/4/2004 11:20:02 PM
From: Biomaven	Respond to of 52153

Maybe some humor will soothe you: Friday March 5, 10:40 AM LA Times Says Opera 'Pro-Life' Not 'Anti-Abortion' LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - This might not end 'til the plus-sized lady sings. A Los Angeles Times music critic who wrote that a Richard Strauss opera was "pro-life" -- meaning a celebration of life -- was stunned to pick up the paper and find his review changed by a literal-minded copy editor to read "anti-abortion." Music critic Mark Swed said the copy editor was adhering to a strict Times policy banning the phrase "pro-life" as offensive to people who support abortion, and didn't seem to realize that the epic Strauss opera "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" had nothing to do with that politically charged issue. "Its about children who aren't born yet screaming to be born -- not abortion," Swed said. "Somebody who didn't quite get it got a little bit too politically correct ... and we had a little breakdown in communications." The Times ran a correction the following day, Feb. 25, irking Swed further because it suggested that the mistake was his. The paper then issued a second correction making clear that he was not responsible. But the second note violated another Times policy -- this one against identifying the person at fault -- which prompted a memo from Jamie Gold, the paper's readers representative. That memo, which first surfaced on the L.A. Observed Web site, admonished reporters: "Corrections will not assign blame" Swed said he was satisfied with the second correction and gratified that top-level editors moved quickly when the mistake was discovered. "Every editor I talked to felt that this shouldn't have happened," the eight-year veteran said. "This was just one person who didn't quite get it going too much by the rule book. It's a bit of a tempest in a tea pot." Last June, Times Executive Editor John Carroll circulated a memo criticizing one of his reporters for a pro-abortion bias in a story about the issue out of Texas. "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" ("The Woman Without a Shadow") has one of the most confusing plots in opera. It tells the story of a half-human, half-divine princess who lacks a shadow -- a symbol for fertility -- and needs to get one to prevent her husband from turning to stone. au.news.yahoo.com