Writ Wrong

     An old saw from Journalism classes:

The cub reporter wrote something like "Despite predictions of rain, God smiled on the open-air assembly of..."

     The editor returned the story with a comment. "Forget open-air assembly. Interview God."

     When I was a cub reporter, I wrote "As the ship approached New York harbor, American Field Service scholars watched the sun rise behind the statue of liberty."

     My copy was returned to me with a terse statement from the editor:  "The sun rises in the east."