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
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
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
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
"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."
@snugbug: ...Or we (copy editors) could just be busy trying to translate the hash you (reporters) write into English for the morning edition. #torontostar
@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
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.
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
Now I need to add that Mitrice Richardson is still missing. She was picked up by the Sheriff's Department and taken to a substation near Malibu for failing to pay a check in a restaurant, acting under the influence and just generally not in good shape. She was alone. She called her family from the Sheriff's station to say she was there and her Mom said she'd pick her up in the morning. They couldn't hold her and released her, but offered to let her stay at the station until her mother came in the morning. She left anyway and hasn't been seen for sure since then. You can imagine how her family feels at this point.
We need to help one another in this life rather than say we can't be bothered. So what if our friend is drunk or crazy? No one else is going to help them if we don't.
I find this general trend of banning and firing people who say unpopular things somewhat disturbing. It's good to disagree and inform people why the advice was bad, but to immediately demand people's jobs because they are wrong is too reactionary for me.
teenypanini09 good post with corrections and information that is genuinely helpful. Thank you.
Ladies (and gentlemen), let's remember that we owe our friends our help and protection especially if they start acting bizarre in public. #advice
i'm not signing any petition, but the advice the columnist gave was wrong. and you've written an inaccurate description of the story. the girl didn't just randomly call her friends after she was roofied. the two girls went to the concert with her and then left while she was in the bathroom.
also, not every girl has a good supportive family or a boyfriend. the girl said these two women have been her best friends and have known each other for 10 years. if you can't count on your best friend to help you when you are roofied, who can you trust?
and i've had a friend call me in the middle of the night because of food poisoning and she was all alone and needed help. and yes, i went over to help her. i did it because that's what you do for friends. #advice
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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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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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"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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"Bob, I know you're name isn't Bob - " #torontostar
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We need to help one another in this life rather than say we can't be bothered. So what if our friend is drunk or crazy? No one else is going to help them if we don't.
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teenypanini09 good post with corrections and information that is genuinely helpful. Thank you.
Ladies (and gentlemen), let's remember that we owe our friends our help and protection especially if they start acting bizarre in public. #advice
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also, not every girl has a good supportive family or a boyfriend. the girl said these two women have been her best friends and have known each other for 10 years. if you can't count on your best friend to help you when you are roofied, who can you trust?
and i've had a friend call me in the middle of the night because of food poisoning and she was all alone and needed help. and yes, i went over to help her. i did it because that's what you do for friends. #advice