NEOMG institutes zero-tolerance typo policy

The Northeast Ohio Media Group (the non-union content providers for Cleveland.com and the Plain Dealer) has a typo problem. The content chief has this to say:

http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2014/04/02/northeast-ohio-media-group-knows-it-has-a-typo-problem

http://jimromenesko.com/2014/04/02/northeast-ohio-media-group-content-chief-institutes-a-zero-tolerance-policy-for-typos/

Of course, this is the same organization that laid off a third of its unionized newsroom personnel less than a year ago. So the upshot is, "Have someone read your stuff, but fuck if we're going to pay for it."

 

Your spouse? Are you fucking kidding? I'm assuming "Andrea" is this dickbag's wife? I'm sure she appreciates the extra work whose only compensation is "love."

Funny thing is, I'd fully support something like this (more likely a three-strikes-you're-out rule), but if I did, I'd make damn sure the resources were there to comply.

 

Does you spouse get a W-9 form for serving as a freelance copy editor?

 

Intentional typo?

 

Dammit. Should have got her to look over it before I posted.

 

Andrea sounds like a whore, giving it away like that.

 

IMO, Advance has no idea what it's doing. Great papers in great cities will just have to wait it out until the Newhouse family gives up.

 

I gotta say, as chickenshit, clueless and tone deaf as it is, asking your spouse to do it beats asking randoms off the street to volunteer for four hours a night. [/crossthread]

 

It's a problem at Advance papers - or any paper - that allows the reporters to post stories directly to the website without it going through a copy desk first.

 

This will not end well.

 

So what if I had my wife, who is dyslexic, look at my copy and she puts a typo in there? Do I get in trouble then?

Just another manager with too much time on his hands who has to look busy to justify his salary.

 

Will my health insurance plan cover it when my wife kicks me in the nuts for asking?