Dips*** publisher asks readers to edit newspaper

Not only that, but she's asking for volunteers to come into the newsroom from 8-11 every night to do it. For free. Well, not totally. A dinner for two (!) goes to the person who catches the most typos and errors:

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/01/21/st-augustine-record-publisher-launches-catch-the-typos-contest-winner-gets-a-free-dinner/

Love Romenesko's smartass response:

"So charting the future for Morris Communications is taking people off the street and letting them do trained journalists’ jobs?"

 

It is asking way too much out of life for something truly and heinously libelous to escape the clutches of these super-volunteers.

 

I bet the publisher just made that offer to shut up the critics knowing no one is dumb enough to come and work from 8-11 p.m. proofing pages for free.

 

Will he make it dinner for four if they answer the phones, too?

 

Then she's also giving her seal of approval to the amount of errors that get to print.

I wish I could say that shocks me.

 

Sure ... instead of one can of Pringles, they get TWO CANS!

 

Make them take some result calls, and let them deal with a dimwit or two. That'll scare them.

 

That's true. At current rates you need to be paying people at least five bucks an hour for that.

 

Also, if I'm the copy editors, I invite Ms. Publisher to spend a few hours with them. She'll never come back.

 

I would do this in a heartbeat.
And I would do nothing but drink booze at my free dinner.

 

Soup is not a meal.

 

Forget soup. The meal is the free crackers they steal out of the condiments bar.