adventures in copy editing

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why i love the la times.

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hee hee

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Very often it's not the copy editor who's to blame but whoever the piece is passed to next -- upper-echelon editors who vaguely give the article a final readthrough for things that might look wrong, before signing off on it and sending it to bed. The copy editor's job is to make sure everything makes sense; any other editor has ten million other duties to contend with and will tweak shit around just because.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Trudat. But it's amazing how patronising towards 'the reader' most fact-checkers can be in terms of 'they won't know that'.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

haha jayson blair to thread

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

it almost seems like the review was copy-edited by a robot.
but y'know what, the reviewer was asking for it. he should have said "life affirming" instead of "pro-life." Fucking music critics, always with their heads up their donkey.

― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 5 March 2004 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

did you know there's an "adventures in copy editing" thread AND an "adventures in copyediting" thread? i wasn't sure which one to post to.

question: what do you do when an upper-editor type hands you a piece and says "don't over-edit this" but it desperately needs to be over-edited, and principled person that you are, you just can't let it go?

― a collectivist romantic fling! (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

There's still a range - you have to do X to be able to live with yourself, and you really want to do X+Y: do X, or a little bit more, and return it pointing out a bunch of things that you really would like to do if you didn't have those instructions.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

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