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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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GlasgowRose
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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GlasgowRose
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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raincoaster
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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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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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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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
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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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
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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ninety_nine
11/07/09

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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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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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NotSafeForLife
11/08/09

@Xylo: "Young Street." #torontostar
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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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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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katekate is squared
11/07/09

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

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

@Foster Kamer: I'm crying red-ink tears. #torontostar
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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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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
11/08/09

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

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

@Foster Kamer: We are all Spartacus, excuse me, editors. #torontostar
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Tart of Darkness
10/19/09

In reply to Commenters So Mad They Could Just Roofie Advice Columnist
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.

[today.msnbc.msn.com] #advice
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Tart of Darkness
10/19/09

In reply to Commenters So Mad They Could Just Roofie Advice Columnist
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
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teenypanini09
10/17/09

In reply to Commenters So Mad They Could Just Roofie Advice Columnist
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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