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Please stop the madness. The Tribune’s overuse of parenthetic reporting reached its zenith on Feb. 25, in its story on Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood’s recovery from illness (“Still-ailing Wood back in hospital,” Sports).
Quoting General Manager Ed Lynch, the Tribune story read, “. . .he woke up with a temperature of 101 (degrees).” As opposed to feet? Or pounds?
It would serve everyone better if you assumed that the majority of your readers have a keen grasp of the obvious and that we deserve a tad more respect for (our) intelligence.
