Actually posted last Thursday: The point is, if you want to be clear to most people, write about Saddam Hussein’s regime, not his regimen. That is, unless you’re dealing with his aerobics routine. From Copy Massage.
Category: Editors’ blogs
Sanity about Vietnam
Doug Clifton, Vietnam vet, on the coverage of Bush & Kerry’s war records: So to Bush’s detractors: Why demean him for doing what anyone with any sense would have done? If you can escape getting shot at by an angry…
New blog for editors
I can still say I was first, but the obvious shortcomings of Prints the Chaff have no doubt inspired a newspaper editors’ blog for grownups who spell journalism with a capital J. This blog is for Global Journalism Issues and…
Garage sale survivor stories
Jeff of Side Salad had a garage sale over the weekend. His take on loss-leader marketing: She came flying up in her compact car, got out and, with laser directness, went right for this frame with four $1 bills in…
Wasn’t every boy’s life like this?
Mondo Winkie on viola lessons: As the afternoon sun crept in through the giant windows, I would rockingly transform from a 9-year-old trying to figure out “Mary Had a Little Lamb” into Gene Simmons, jumping around the living room jamming…
More on Jen’s dancing career
Not sure why but I’m fascinated with Jen of Nonsense Verse’s dancing career … maybe it’s because ballet is so unlike copy editing; maybe not the exact opposite but maybe 178 degrees. She has a new post on getting back…
Capital appreciation
Nicole has had a bunch of swell posts at her blog over the past few days.
Big-time copy chiefing
Bill Walsh, national desk copy chief at the Washington Post, on copy chiefing: Doing a copy-chief job is like having 1,000 baseballs simultaneously dropped on you — and then being asked why in the world you didn’t knock ball No.…
A few more editors’ blogs
Design prodigy Tim Ball has a nifty blog. He’s design honcho at a newspaper in Wisconsin. Lately he’s been tracking an awesome concert coming his way. Remember the story about my co-worker who had a new digital camera the same…
Too much time on his hands
That was the case at Side Salad yesterday, which means oodles of fun links and all-around silliness. Stop by and tell him Happy Birthday.