Singleton: copy editors may be cheaper in India

The funny thing about the web feed is that the best stories always come out of the closed sessions to discuss personnel issues. Don't know what the public meetings laws are elsewhere but reporters can sit in on closed sessions but can't report on it. They can take the information and try and reverse engineer a story by finding someone who isn't as up on the public meeting and public record laws though. I don't think you can do that from India.

 

You can, but it always ends up the cow's fault...

 

Never mind that Dean's ridiculous salary comes from the sweat of the dwindling workforce which publishes his newspapers.

I worked with a founder/publisher that hired consultants who had never worked in a newsroom in their lives. Lumping them in with Dean sounds about right.

 

While we're at it, why don't we just pick up and move the whole United States to India and then we can operate our whole country on a nickel and publish some great newspapers.

I claim first dibs on a consultant's job, teaching English to India's copyeditors.

 

Oh, snap, son!

 

Not sure I'd count on that consultant's job:

Wikipedia: "English is the co-official language of India, with about 90 million speakers, but with fewer than quarter of a million calling it a first language."

Nevertheless, this part of the Wikipedia entry has amusement potential: "the grammar of higher British English is considered the only correct one."

 

and true.

 

Fuck you, Lean Dean.

 

yup. what he said.

 

Dear Dean Singleton,

Please eat poison.

Signed,

People who care about journalism

 

shit. i just agreed with bubs. how can i ...