From the Calvin Trillin profile of Edna Buchanan (linked via Romenesko and newsdesigner yesterday) comes this bit about editors: There are editors who want to cut a story even though it was virtually ordained to run at least sixteen inches.…
Down on the range
Just for the heck of it, a Bill Walsh Sharp Point on idiotic uses of “ranging from…”
AP needs a copy editor
Scroll down on this page at the Copy Editor newsletter job board. Posted in honor of the ever-popular “Hundreds of Papers Use AP Unedited” threads at Testy Copy Editors.
George Plimpton dies
Here’s the Google News roundup. Another celebrity passing: Robert Palmer. These bring a question to mind: whom would you rather be remembered as, the Paris Review guy or the guy with the empty-faced, guitar-playing babes in the rock video?
The sexy life of a food writer
Read all about it in “Food Porn” at CJR. I do the production on our weekly Food section, so any lascivious links about food reporting will be latched upon. OK, the serious part: And never before has interest in food…
From Strunk & White’s greatest hits
A participial phrase at the beginning of a sentence must refer to the grammatical subject.