[jayasena]

The NY Times reveals the corruption goes...straight to the top: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/us/new...&seid=auto

Not at all sorry for Literature's Greatest Losers.

A question for those in journalism here. A few words in that article struck me as too colloquial for a newspaper article (e.g. "busted pipes", "the governing body... is broke"). I have been noticing this quite a bit lately in a lot of articles but was a bit surprised to see it in the NYT. Is this sort of thing generally considered acceptable?

[jayasena]

The NY Times reveals the corruption goes...straight to the top: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/us/new...&seid=auto

Not at all sorry for Literature's Greatest Losers.

A question for those in journalism here. A few words in that article struck me as too colloquial for a newspaper article (e.g. "busted pipes", "the governing body... is broke"). I have been noticing this quite a bit lately in a lot of articles but was a bit surprised to see it in the NYT. Is this sort of thing generally considered acceptable?