Where have all the copy editors gone?

[trifectarich]

I've concluded that a number of websites and publications simply have decided to skip this part of the process. It looks like they get a story and just go with it. Maybe I just lucked out and clicked on the wrong places, but in the first three stories I read this morning, before I even got out of bed:

* sessions (the Cabinet nominee) in a headline, lower case S
* may (the month) also lower case
* pair where it's supposed to be pare
and
* where in the *@&^%! did woah come from?

Rant over. Kerry on.

 

[da man]

To Cleveland.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I've concluded that a number of websites and publications simply have decided to skip this part of the process.

Did you fall asleep in 2008 and just wake up this morning?

 

[da man]

Correction: To the nearest bar.

 

[John]

They left with institutional knowledge and sports-friendly deadlines.

 

[Bronco77]

Went to Gatehouse and Gannett's editing studios.

 

[1stmm]

We all had to reinvent our careers and are now in some form of corporate/trade communications, but still cringe whenever we see the numerous copy mistakes on the interwebs these days.

 

[trifectarich]

Went to Gatehouse and Gannett's editing studios.

I'll buy that answer.

 

[ondeadline]

Austin, Texas.

 

[Fran Curci]

The problem goes far beyond typos or minor errors. Even in high-end publications, convoluted writing abounds.

 

[MNgremlin]

I've concluded that a number of websites and publications simply have decided to skip this part of the process. It looks like they get a story and just go with it. Maybe I just lucked out and clicked on the wrong places, but in the first three stories I read this morning, before I even got out of bed:

* sessions (the Cabinet nominee) in a headline, lower case S
* may (the month) also lower case
* pair where it's supposed to be pare
and
* where in the *@&^%! did woah come from?

Rant over. Kerry on.

On the first two, I've seen the same thing at my shop. If using Qwark (or whatever program) and you copy/paste the headline into your website during uploading, it carries the capitalization of how it was typed into the program. If using an all-caps headline style, some editors don't think to use proper capitalization rules. So if they don't when entering it in and don't catch it while uploading, you end up with headlines that have capitalization errors.

 

[Oggiedoggie]

It's Quark, short for QuarkXPress.

 

[reformedhack]

 

[Deskgrunt50]

The White House needs copy editors, based on that list of "under reported" terrorist attacks. Or, um attaks.

So embarrassing. But in an age of Twitter, emojis and LOLs, nobody seems to care.

Awful.

 

[reformedhack]

(You have no idea how gratifying it is to see that at least two people enjoyed my Quark reference.)

 

[UPChip]

It's Quark, short for QuarkXPress.

COME TO QUARK! QUARK IS FUN! PAGES FAST! DON'T WALK, RUN!

 

[MNgremlin]

Sorry, didn't have it on my laptop at home to spell-check the name of the program. Maybe since you guys got so bent out of shape over the incorrect spelling, you should take all the copy editing jobs.

 

[fossywriter8]

I actually remember this show.

 

[UPChip]

Sorry, didn't have it on my laptop at home to spell-check the name of the program. Maybe since you guys got so bent out of shape over the incorrect spelling, you should take all the copy editing jobs.

 

[I Should Coco]

Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Quark controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical pagination program controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.