[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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