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Stuff Journalists Like - yvonne - 02-13-2012



Because there are several journalists an former journalists here, I thought you might appreciate this site. The blog is fair, but the List, is excellent!

Fixed the links for you. --CompSci87

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Re: Stuff Journalists Like - Kathy - 02-13-2012

Garvin, note you're #40 on the List, and I'm #4.  8)

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Re: Stuff Journalists Like - washingtonismoney - 02-13-2012

Who likes inverted pyramids? People who like boring writing?

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Re: Stuff Journalists Like - yvonne - 02-13-2012

People who want to get to the point quickly like inverted pyramids. Lazy editors also like them.

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Re: Stuff Journalists Like - Kathy - 02-14-2012

It's interesting to note that the Web version of this headline more accurately reflects the piece's contents:

On the Web, No One Cares If You Write Like a Dog
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/02/13/2639933/on-the-web-no-one-cares-if-you.html

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The ad for U.S..C says it all - Redrum - 02-14-2012

Up there in the corner.  Touting a Masters in Communication Management.  Management.  Cripes.

Even though she is a barbed arrow in my side, slowly working its way toward vital organs,  I agree with Kathy on broad principles.  Most of the time watching what's left of TV news or reading bloggers who have unwisely been given more prominence than they merit,  the first thing I think is " Wasn't there an editor around to save this nincompoop from him/her self?"   

Not every writer can be an autonomous, fully functioning adult like garvin.  Many or most NEED editors for the same reason we don't leave the front doors of day care centers open to streets with busy, fast traffic. 

But then I begin to ruminate on the difference between editors who obsess over the placement of apostrophes  and editors who are good at sorting and rescuing trash writing  and  I begin to think like garvin.   

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