Et tu, New York Times?
In a story about news organizations buying Topix.net, Katherine Q. Seelye of the Times writes, "The three newspaper publishers have joined together for two other online projects..."
Joined together?
This redundancy is so common it may be foolish to quibble with it. Like the misuse of "unique" - which has long since surrendered its one-of-a-kind meaning and come to signify "unusual" - "joined together" may have achieved such currency as to be acceptable.
But I still wonder - might the three organizations have joined apart?