A 16-inch story on the firebombing of jail-guard Todd Purcell’s home, appeared under the fold of the front page of the provincial edition of the Gazette Monday morning, and on page B1 in Metro.
Rawle barely recognized the story as the one he’d written the day before.
Jack Lee had completely butchered his paragraphs, changed the lede, and mixed in all kinds of crazy stuff about bikers.
But the weird thing was despite all the changes Jack had made, his byline was not on the story. It just said: By Rawle Powder, that was it. He checked at the end of the story too, but Jack’s name wasn’t there either. Jack should have been given a shared byline based on the amount he put in the story. Or at least a With Jack Lee, Valley Bureau, or With files from Jack Lee at the end of the story, especially cause Jack had seniority.
They must have made an editing mistake in Halifax.
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