Copy-editor Opening?
Headline for Sacramento Bee front-page article:
Embattled Southern California city of Vernon in a battle to survive
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Headline for Sacramento Bee front-page article:
Embattled Southern California city of Vernon in a battle to survive
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amba12 said,
March 6, 2011 at 11:08 am
They laid off their copy editor to save $$.
chickelit said,
March 6, 2011 at 11:21 am
The editor became redundant?
PatHMV said,
March 6, 2011 at 12:11 pm
lol, chickelit!
Maxwell James said,
March 6, 2011 at 5:29 pm
Perhaps the current copy editor is taking their job a bit too literally.
LouiseM said,
March 6, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Sounds like a good tonk with an engineer’s hammer might be in order before any kind of mechanic is summoned.
Rod said,
March 6, 2011 at 10:40 pm
Seems to me the embattled copy editor was in a battle.
karen said,
March 7, 2011 at 3:08 pm
I saw a commercial for Victoria’s Secret:
“There is 5 good reasons…”
Seems they need help, as well- and just think: free Pink!!!!
pathmv said,
March 7, 2011 at 3:41 pm
chickelit… but was the copy-editor made redundant before or after he missed the redundancy?
karen said,
March 7, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Here’s one, by my son:
Organic and non-organic farming differ in many different ways.
pathmv said,
March 7, 2011 at 10:28 pm
A written redundancy rendered the misreading proofreader redundant.
Can “rendered redundant” properly be used in place of “made redundant” as a synonym for “fired”?
karen said,
March 10, 2011 at 11:54 am
On my Salada teabag(:0)): “editors mince words”.