this is what i said: to be fair... (while) oftentimes news headlines are more dramatic than the news, in this case... the newspaper has been blamelessly neutral and factual and the hapless victim of misunderstanding.
what they printed: ... less than fair in (his) criticism... (the) headline was, if anything, factual and accurate.
this is ghastly. they have edited my irony to perdition and left me sounding like an earnest do-gooder. the only thing to say is, the premier english newspaper in sgp has become entrenched in inelegantly literal syntax. we have lost the art of laughing at each other, and at ourselves.
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