Read the whole thing, but you should know that I submitted a different byline than the one they used.
The byline reads -- online at least -- as "Daniel W. Drezner is associate professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School and the author of "All Politics Is Global." He maintains a blog at danieldrezner.com/blog/."
Which is great, but the byline I submitted to them was, "Daniel W. Drezner is associate professor of international politics at Tufts University's Fletcher School and the author of "All Politics Is Global." He has never been invited to Davos, but is not bitter about that fact in the slightest."
I think I'd be less upset if I didn't fear that the deleted sentence was the best line in the piece.
As a blogger he gets to let folks know how he meant for his piece to be taken, and not how the editors chose to present his piece.
Why edit out the insouciant little self-deprecating joke in the bio blurb?
(unanswerable as it was done without good reason, probably some sort of style book they're following, or fear, or stupidity, or whatever)
And it needn't be repeated, but I will anyway, as he writes on his blog, read the whole LAT Op-Ed, it's a good 'un.
(if I had an editor they never would have let me get away with "good 'un" (or all these parenthetical phrases, for that matter))
Also, it bears repeating, it's nice that they chose to include his blog's name in their bio for him, but would it be that much more difficult to make it an actual link on their online edition?
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