[ExI] funny headlines again
natasha at natasha.cc
natasha at natasha.cc
Thu Jan 28 20:36:54 UTC 2010
Wel sayd, Brilliant!
Quoting Tom Nowell <nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk>:
> Spike asked Damien if it was getting harder to find good
> proofreaders. Well, I don't know about the situation in San Antonio,
> but over in the UK the problem is finding media organisations
> willing to pay enough money to have a large enough subediting staff.
> The Daily Telegraph (a daily paper right-wing enough to be
> nicknamed "The Torygraph") outsourced their subediting to a firm in
> Australia, whose low-cost values shone through when I discovered a
> page headed with "Insert Breaker Text Here", suggesting the layout
> wasn't entirely finished before they went to press.
>
> Spike used an example from FOX - being a Murdoch-owned business, I
> expect the Great Cost-Slasher himself ordered across the board cuts
> in every department, drop in production standards be damned.
>
> Tom
>
>
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