Copybitch: Which paper has the worstest grammar?

When it comes to distinguishing comparative and superlative, the newspapers are tied with the bloggers and the candidates themselves.

There are two candidates running for the Democratic nomination. Between them, there can be a stronger candidate. Not this, from Adam Nagourney and Marjorie Connelly:

Still, the survey suggested that Mr. Obama, of Illinois, had lost much or all of the once-commanding lead he had held over Mrs. Clinton, of New York, among Democratic voters on the question of which of them would be the strongest candidate against Mr. McCain, of Arizona.

As usual, the links to the reporter's bylines are to lists of their stories. The one for Adam Nagourney at least has a link to a second page that lets you fill out a form to email him, but it warns that the message will be delayed.

When I was a reporter for News.com, every reporter's byline had a mailto: link. I routinely got helpful email from readers that either helped me clarify if not correct the posted story in very short order or alerted me to related story ideas. The Times doesn't cotton to this element of "interactivity," a symptom of its illness-at-ease on the Internet.