Tuesday, July 13, 2004

Link roundup

A novel about a tough-guy copy editor. Yes, there is such a thing.


They're "white-bread" politicians, not "white-bred."
Although the latter is probably just as true as the former.

Watch those Jeopardy leads about Ken Jennings. Remember, it's answer, then question. And one had better answer the other.

1 Comments:

At 7:36 PM, July 13, 2004, Blogger jann said...

From the "ooh, I've known some [fill in your favorite newsroom job title] like that" department:

-snip-

When a detective questioning McMorrow about a recent fight learns that he's a copy editor, the detective is incredulous.

"Is that right?" the detective says. "What do you do if the writers spell a word wrong? Break their fingers?"

-end snip-

Thanks for the tip, Nicole. Sounds like a cool book.

 

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