Bring Back the Copy Editor

Editorswebblog.org ^ | 11-4-09 | Don Irvine

[AIM Freeper]

As newsrooms shrink one little noticed by valuable part of the staff is rapidly disappearing leaving papers with typo strewn copy.

From Editorsweblog.org

Readers who have come to rely on sports journalist Tom Boswell's quality baseball coverage for the Washington Post, might not have been quite so impressed with Monday's offering: His column, covering Sunday's World Series game, was sent to the printers awash with typos, grammatical errors and misspellings; generating a number of complaints.

[GeronL]

How about bring back the fact checkers?

[ETL]

im not sure wat you mean i havent notised any increaze in typos or grammermatical erors

[MrEdd]

Meh, replace Boswell with someone competent enough to use language properly, and technically adept enough to use a spell checker.

Problem solved.

[arbee4bush]

Really. Had to have our local paper reprint daughters wedding notice. Full of typos the first run. Like my daughter stated, “Sure would be nice to be able to show our wedding pictures in the newspaper to our kids someday without being embarrassed with the write-up”. They reran it only because they were threatened with us wanting a refund of the $50 it charged to run it in the first place. Crooks

[TypeZoNegative]

Many of these news editors probably went to public school where they taught the children that there’s no such thing as “bad spelling or grammar”.

Their is such a thing as bad spelling and grammer. I wish somebody would tell them ‘Your wrong’!

:)

[NewJerseyJoe]

ping for later

[xjcsa]

Readers who have come to rely on sports journalist Tom Boswell's quality baseball coverage for the Washington Post, might not have been quite so impressed with Monday's offering: His column, covering Sunday's World Series game, was sent to the printers awash with typos, grammatical errors and misspellings; generating a number of complaints.

This sentence could have used a copy editor itself. Pretty rich irony, that.

[xjcsa]

Their is such a thing as bad spelling and grammer. I wish somebody would tell them ‘Your wrong’!

Well played.

[scripter]

ping

[xjcsa]

As newsrooms shrink one little noticed by valuable part of the staff is rapidly disappearing leaving papers with typo strewn copy.

This sentence too...

[loungitude]

As newsrooms shrink one little noticed by valuable part of the staff is rapidly disappearing leaving papers with typo strewn copy.

This sentence too...

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Awww, c’mon, you know what they meant.
/sarc

[Flycatcher]

Come on... you can’t be expected to shill for Obama and spell correctly too.

[BenKenobi]

They did the same with my Father’s obituary. 10 typos.

I was pissed, and went down to complain. I gave them hell to fix it for the rest of the days it was to run. They trie to blame it on the funeral home.

Scum.