“Garbage in, garbage out.”
A printing press operator I worked with at one time used to say that anytime we questioned the quality of photo reproduction in the paper. He was a little too quick to dismiss questions about the quality of his work on the press with that phrase, but in a broader sense it holds true. And it can hold true for stories, too.It didn’t mean he wasn’t trying to set it up to print as well as possible. He was good at his job. But he did like to use that phrase as a way to quietly shift
