Let’s delete redact
It’s as if media organisations no longer have gruff chiefs of staff who teach young reporters how to write. Many years ago my boss was the redacteur-en-chef, but that was in Paris at Agence France-Presse. Nowadays, you’ll see the words redact and redacted everywhere. In English. The Latin root of the word means to bring things together, to shape something, usually a piece of writing … Editing is the right word for it. Somehow, though, the latest usages of redact …