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Originally posted by Ginger
Congrats on your positive publicity! Its great to see newspapers portraying the wonderful things we do for our communities rather than putting us down all the time.
Do you realize they used the word "said" 34 times in that article? Yikes. Maybe the next time they do an article on Greeks yall should lend them a thesaurus 
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As a professional journalist with more than 10 years of experience, I can tell you that "said" is the preferred word because it is not supposed to imply bias. Phrasing such as "according to," unless referring to a document, is rather pretentious, IMO.