It was Mike Duffy’s lawyer, Donald Bayne, who asked Wright: “Why did you redact the prime minister’s input?” Wright waffled a 48-word sentence in reply, but gave no sign that he found the question in itself perplexing.īy the way, the article in question can no longer be found on the CBC website. Omit or doctor? In fairness to Wright, he didn’t introduce the word at the current trial. A link provided in another CBC article declared: “Wright accused of omitting Harper email about controversy.” But the Vancouver East Liberals, when they posted a link to the initial story on their Facebook page, assumed the word had a different sense: “ So Nigel Wright doctored the Prime Minister’s email from the PM’s personal email account and the PM still did not know what was going on?” The CBC story was reposted elsewhere that day on the Internet, and the repostings reveal doubt about the meaning of the key verb. Extreme redaction equals deletion, or unwriting.īack to Nigel Wright. When military documents are released to the press, the redaction is so extreme that often nearly everything has been blacked out. A common meaning of “redact” today is very different: as the Merriam-Webster Dictionary puts it, “to obscure or remove text from a document prior to publication or release.” Many American news stories have used the word with regard to Hillary Clinton’s private emails - “redacted,” in that sense, means heavily edited to the point of censorship. Wikipedia concurs: “ Redaction is a form of editing in which multiple source texts are combined (redacted) and altered slightly to make a single document.” And today the English noun “redactor” - sometimes spelled rédacteur - is, Oxford says, “ a person who redacts something, especially one who works source material into a distinct, usually written, form an editor.” A redacted text, in this sense, has been edited or compiled from earlier sources. The ambiguity here echoes the confusion, or at least overlap, in the French noun “rédacteur.” That word can refer to either a writer or an editor (the word “éditeur” in French means a publisher). It meant, at first, to write or edit in a form suitable for publication. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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