Clearly, We Have Some Explaining to Do
Why do you guys insist on liberally sprinkling those annoying [brackets] through every quote that you print? Is it because the people you interview are so [darned] inarticulate that they can’t express themselves coherently or because you think you’re so [doggoned] smart that you need to translate everything for your benighted readers?
Television seems to flourish as a medium while airing hundreds of live interviews every day without feeling the need for any of this constant editorializing [stuff], so why does The Times do it incessantly?
Why not just print verbatim what those [people] actually said and allow your readers to interpret the [material] for themselves?
ALLEN E. KAHN
Playa del Rey
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