Say What?!

Poor grammar are confusing and making the reader work harder than they are needed. People also tend to be think faster than they is speaking, and don’t mean to say what they say they mean to be more clear. If with me still, kudos to you, for when raw thoughts is cleaned up, it’s amazing how much easier the reading becomes. Readers shouldn’t have to work to get your story. Even worse, when bad grammar just slips in, becomes it more hard to understand, and readers may actually have to backup, or just quit reading. So, as a courtesy to your reader, it is a good practice to avoid grammar that can be confusing.
Also, it has been said in the world of journalism that, as a general rule, you shouldn’t quote unless you can’t say it any better. If a source’s grammar is such that a misunderstanding is possible, then it could probably be better said another way.
When taking notes often times conjunctions, interjections, and prepositions are commonly omitted. Many grammatical errors also commonly occur here, and so this note-taking practice inadvertently cleans up messy quotes.
My circle of ethics has been reduced to a point; that point being this: You are ultimately writing to your readers, and, for them, you should be sure that your story is grammatically coherent.
While on the subject of wording, I would like to make another point. The use of abnormal spelling is largely a stylistic choice. I have found that you can rarely ever really capture a dialect through the spelling alone, and it is therefore useless to that end. You can, however, convey a context, an atmosphere, a vibe, if you will. Using informal words like prob’ly, gonna, ain’t, or, like, like convey a casual feeling. Whereas the proper, formal terms probably, going to, and am not are assertive and direct. Soft news stories may warrant a more casual essence, and loose grammar and informal spelling is desirable. However, hard news stories are assertive in nature, and will be better served by proper grammar and spelling.
In mathematics, when we create two points in space we connect them with a line. In journalism, we should always clean up grammar, and we should strive for a fluid assertive tone. By connecting these points we create a line between telling a story and just confusing a reader; a line that should never be crossed