Quote:The thing that I miss most about Ketchman - and it's probably the only thing, really - was the 'spit and polish' on his work. Vic rarely submitted anything with a typographical or grammatical error, and you got the feeling that he wasn't going to either. It may not be a big thing to some, but I feel like bad grammar and typo's really put the organization in a bad light when it's displayed for all to see.

 

Agreed.

 

Vic was a stickler for details.  I remember hearing him rail one time on the radio show about a writer who used "that" too often.  He said that in most cases, if you were to take a piece of writing and take out the "thats" in there, it wouldn't change anything.  He had developed this disdain for "that" because of a journalism professor, and he must have taken it to heart.  He rarely uses the word. 

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