Unbeknownst to me
The Miami Herald has re-printed my review of Steve Bogira's wonderful book-Courtroom 302.
Except that it hasn't.
Without contacting me, they've edited it down, removing several laudatory passages. Here's what they did to the last few sentences:
Originally, I wrote that:
"In his analysis of these unknown cases, he carefully assembles and presents a portrait of a system plagued with abusive police officers and corrupt judges, a system more interested in statistics than people, a system more focused on punishment than rehabilitation. And that is why, perhaps as well as anyone before him, in writing about average defendants, Bogira is able to explain a system that "miscarries every day by doing precisely what we ask it to do.""
They re-wrote it to read:
"He carefully assembles and presents a portrait of a system plagued with abusive police officers and corrupt judges, more interested in statistics than people, more focused on punishment than rehabilitation. And that is why he is able to explain a system that ``miscarries every day by doing precisely what we ask it to do.''"
Does that change the tone?
I kind of think it does.
And I think the impression left by the edited review is not as favorable as I intended.
Any thoughts? Opinions? Suggestions as to what to do?
my controversial book about a day in my life as Public Defender in the South Bronx is finally available for Kindle and Ipad.
1 comment:
they owe you money I think. and its a copyright violation (although maybe not yours to assert as original publication has rights).
I would write a stern letter to them and copy original publication.
oatie
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