Word: copydeskers
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...course, losing subscribers is not exactly going to help beef up the Times's copydesk. But as a consumer, she had a point: Why pay for a product that disappoints her? So what if the newspaper business model is challenging. That's not her problem. Just fix it! (See pictures of Judd Apatow's war on Jay Leno...
America lacks a language dictator like the Académie Française, whose 40 members, known as immortels, determined that the commonly used e-mail may not be accepted into the French language while un hamburger may. The closest thing here may be the copydesk of the New York Times, a stickler for protocol; yet it too is uncertain of its semiotic bearings. When the Obamas called on the Bushes after the election, the newspaper reported that "Mrs. Bush" greeted the Obamas and "Ms. Bush wore a brown suit." During the campaign, Hillary Clinton was two women in a single sentence...
...memory to honor. Her English and drama teacher, Miss Spence, had opened a world of meaning and beauty for her. Back in the shadowy gym she felt again that bright, intense figure coaching her kids through the class plays. Dorothy Spence Illson later became head of Life magazine's copydesk in New York City. She died two years...
Otero's biographer, Arthur H. Lewis (The Day They Shook the Plum Tree), is a former newspaperman in the old copydesk tradition, relying heavily on choice clips and spicy quotes. He also does his duty by psychology and suggests that the fatherless Otero's entire life may not have been so much a triumphant romp as a protest against the man who raped her. If so, she certainly kept on protesting-and protesting. She had her last lover, it has been said, at 60. A compulsive gambler, she had lost her entire fortune by 1926 at the casino...
Hearst's own copy, by his own instructions, gets copydesk treatment. His "Editor's Report" on Europe ("And so, as they say in the travelogues, we say goodbye to good old Europa") was condensed by some Hearst editors...