Posted on 06/28/2017 6:17:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
editorial; plural noun: editorials 1. a newspaper article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.
op-ed adjective noun: op-ed; plural noun: op-eds; adjective: Op-Ed; adjective: OpEd denoting or printed on the page opposite the editorial page in a newspaper, devoted to commentary, feature articles, etc.
Writing a letter like that is a great way to not work again in your field.
Spoiled little brats.
It is a house cleaning.
And the new people will work for less.
Copyediting is not obsolete. People who don’t know it well just think it is.
You might as well say script doctors are obsolete. The movies would be making you laugh even more than they do now, and I don’t mean the comedies.
People don’t know how to do plumbing either. If they tried to make plumbers obsolete . . . I won’t go on . . .
I will tell the Media how to turn the sinking ship and WIN at every turn: Be tough, be honest and BE FAIR.....That is REALLY a simple damn formula that will insure record profits and bring back that air of integrity that journalists used to enjoy.....I give them this advice knowing full well they will not.
Copyediting is not obsolete. People who don’t know it well just think it is.
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True or not, the people who think it is are the ones in charge.
Just like the people who thought that American software coding was obsolete for the past 15-20 years.
And then there are the typesetters...
At any rate, I think it’s wonderfully comical that the J-school graduates who thought their jobs were as secure as plumbers, morticians, corporate accountants, or (God forbid) HR employees are now getting a taste of what funemployment entails.
And if they’re not, they need to be, considering their biggest qualification nowadays is the ability to tell lies until they become the truth.
One of my colleagues once took his revenge on his employer by simply failing to send a book out for proofreading.
In other words, the lowest on the Totem Pole. It should be the opinion writers or “reporters” that should be getting the AX. HEH HEH
In other words, the lowest on the Totem Pole. It should be the opinion writers or “reporters” that should be getting the AX. HEH HEH
AU CONTRAIRE,
Covfefe, is an Antedeluvian term which was commonly used by the sons of Adam to rail against the evil acts of the fallen, who led man astray. It was rarely used after the Flood of Noah subsided. It regained favor around the time of Nimrod was building the Tower of Babel, after which it was entirely lost in translation.
HEH HEH and THAT is why POTUS used the word. Most people can’t figure out what it means.HEH HEH He plays the Left like a cheap Violin.
Angst at the Times.
So sad, too bad.
5.56mm
Welcome to my world, buttercups.
“What does the Times need copy editors for”
Exactly! Some here though, think Grammar is the be all. HEH HEH.
What is the point of editing Copy, IF it is FALSE! Are the editors not smart enough to see FAKE NEWS?
That would be like me creating a Drawing for a part on a FUSION MACHINE, but not insuring it’s FIT, FORM or FUNCTION!
I wouldn't say the lowest, they are experts in their field; but definitely off on the technical side, not the opinion generators.
“As a medium, print is on an irreversible decline relative to digital. We are headed for an inflection point at which print newspapers as we knew them in the past will be unsustainable.
Like it or not, print must change.
If you are a wire editor or features editor, your odds of surviving in such a position until retirement are slim to none. Those jobs are obsolete. We can not save a system in which thousands of people sit around reinventing the wheel in parallel processes all around the country.
The Tribune Company’s bankruptcy raises the urgency of facing this issue, but it will be an issue for everyone sooner or later. This is just another case of “the future is already here; it’s just unevenly distributed.”
If you imagine that jobs will simply move from a print focus to an Internet focus, you’re wrong. Some jobs, like the wire editor and the features editor, will disappear. The Internet presents us with completely new tasks, requiring different skill sets.” HEH HEH
I can see with my own eyes that copyediting and proofreading have not moved from print to the Internet. Not enough time, I guess—got to get your stuff out there before the other guy.
One thing that has happened, though, is that now that books are being copyedited on computer, younger people are being hired to do it, and while they may have the skills to edit on computer successfully, they lack the years of experience and the knowledge of the English language that the older copyeditors have. Thus the rise of the ancient proofreader, who cleans up after everybody else is finished.
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