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    Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts

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    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    11/08/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    A quick check of der Google indicates that CEP = the Communication Energy and Paperworkers union. CEP's response lambastes TorStar mgmt for dropping this bomb on the newspaper's 117th birthday. #torontostar
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    And where's WashPugilist Harry Allen when we need him? #torontostar
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    11/08/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    One more correction" "Canadian Editors: Freaking the F**K Oot..." #torontostar
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    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    Have you ever READ the Toronto Star? It's really pitched for the kind of people Fran Lebowitz says can't watch television without moving their lips. Undoubtedly, they employ the same. So this is a surprise why? #torontostar
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    See, we can be just as snarky as our American counterparts. Just going about it in a more subtle way.
    I'd like to send this unknown editor the memos I get from the head of the company I work for, (incidentally, a rival media conglomerate) they are just as vague and wordy. #torontostar
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    The future of news writing and editing is actually robots. #torontostar
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    Image of VockLobster VockLobster
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    Copy editors are an aggravating bunch in the newsroom, but the rest of the world doesn't even know we've been there. We' swoop in to make you writer-folk look smart, taking none of the glory for ourselves. So we're allowed to bitch about comma splices sometimes. #torontostar
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    snugbug promoted this comment VockLobster was starred VockLobster was unstarred
    Image of snugbug snugbug
    11/07/09

    @VockLobster:
    Try this, copy editor:

    "We copy editors are an aggravating presence in the newsroom. We're also invisible outside of it. We make writers look smart--unless we make them look stupider than they actually are. In the former case, we don't partake in their glory. In the latter, we face no consequences. Since we're bitter and often bored, we sometimes amuse ourselves with petty acts of sabotage. Like breaking the flow of copy with superfluous comma splices and recasting witty headlines into pedestrian ones."

    Much better, no? #torontostar
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    Image of ndhapple ndhapple
    11/07/09

    @snugbug: ...Or we (copy editors) could just be busy trying to translate the hash you (reporters) write into English for the morning edition. #torontostar
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    snugbug promoted this comment ndhapple was starred ndhapple was unstarred
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    11/07/09

    @ndhapple: What newspaper on G_d's blessed earth still has "a morning edition"? Fact-check department is gonna be all over your ass for this! #torontostar
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    Image of ninety_nine ninety_nine
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    In the first graf, the proofer's mark indicates a line break for 'townhall' not insert space (which is what I presume he wanted). Maybe they use metric for their proofing or something.
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    Edited by ninety_nine at 11/07/09 1:49 PM ninety_nine was starred ninety_nine was unstarred
    Image of Xylo Xylo
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    Wait until the copy editors working in India start correcting "Eglinton Avenue" in all the City Page stories.
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    Edited by Xylo at 11/07/09 1:21 PM Xylo was starred Xylo was unstarred
    Image of NotSafeForLife NotSafeForLife
    11/08/09

    @Xylo: "Young Street." #torontostar
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    Xylo promoted this comment NotSafeForLife was starred NotSafeForLife was unstarred
    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    You really missed out on a good opportunity to make us commenters feel important, Foster. Some of us clearly live to be your copy editors, and there are no typos anywhere in this piece! Come on! #torontostar
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/07/09

    @katekate is squared: KateKate. Just for you. Read the item again. Amended and tagged. #Commenters. #torontostar
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    11/07/09

    @Foster Kamer: You're the best! #torontostar
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    Image of VockLobster VockLobster
    11/07/09

    @Foster Kamer: I found one!

    "And you're like, Bob, I know you're name isn't Bob, and you're not picking up this call in Austin either, are you?"

    Relieved to learn that this was apparently intentional. #torontostar
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment VockLobster was starred VockLobster was unstarred
    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/07/09

    @VockLobster: I am not correcting one goddamn copy error on this post. No. Not one. #torontostar
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    11/07/09

    @katekate is squared: No, "your the best," as -

    "Bob, I know you're name isn't Bob - " #torontostar
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    Image of VockLobster VockLobster
    11/07/09

    @Foster Kamer: I'm crying red-ink tears. #torontostar
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    11/07/09

    @Foster Kamer: hahaha, sorry Foster, I think I brought the vultures. I didn't even notice that one. #torontostar
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    Image of mj.milloy mj.milloy
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    Those who can, do; those who can't, edit copy.
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    GlasgowRose promoted this comment PaisleyPajamas approved this comment mj.milloy was starred mj.milloy was unstarred
    Image of GlasgowRose GlasgowRose
    11/08/09

    @mj.milloy: And those who won't, teach copy editing. #torontostar
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    Image of sparklyharempants sparklyharempants
    11/07/09

    In reply to Canadian Editors: Freaking the F—k Out, Just Like Their American Counterparts
    Gawker has editors? #torontostar
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment sparklyharempants was starred sparklyharempants was unstarred
    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/07/09

    @sparklyharempants: Exactly. We killed them all. #torontostar
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    11/08/09

    @Foster Kamer: We are all Spartacus, excuse me, editors. #torontostar
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    Edited by miss_msry at 11/08/09 11:49 AM miss_msry was starred miss_msry was unstarred
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