Testy Copy Editors

02/09/2024

RIP Linda Deutsch. [Associated Press 🔵]

Linda Deutsch, a special correspondent for The Associated Press for many of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials died Sunday.

02/09/2024

The horror! [The New York Times]

01/09/2024

First World workarounds. [The Wall Street Journal]

01/09/2024

Takes a news service named "Fox" to read animals' minds (and uncover bear hypocrisy). [Fox News]

01/09/2024

Summer slows. I know! Let's talk about ... abolishing the penny. "For her reporting of this article, she visited the Treasury, the United States Mint, the Library of Congress, the National Portrait Gallery and the coin vault at the National Museum of American History." Doesn't she own a purse?
[The New York Times]

Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.

31/08/2024

Link from op-ed (Nicholas Kristof, prop.) in The New York Times goes to ... Kristof Farms (Nicholas Kristof, prop.), purveyor of wine and cider, 20% off.

31/08/2024

All-time leader in the Euphemism Sweepstakes again proves itself more durable than kings or commoners. [AFP News Agency via RTL Luxembourg]

31/08/2024

Free tickets? Aw, shucks, t'weren't nothing. Orchestra, front row center. [Reuters]

31/08/2024

True, some courts are politicized, but that's not how voting on judicial opinions works. [The New York Times]

31/08/2024

Oops. [The Wall Street Journal]

31/08/2024

Is Wells Fargo on the list? (We'll save the commentariat from having to post "Sure, people are dying to work there" responses.) [Fortune]

31/08/2024

Shocked, shocked! that when Hollywood makes a movie that's torn from the headlines, sometimes Hollywood doesn't read the story or the sidebars. [Washington Post]

31/08/2024

Blah blah blah, Washington Post, and stop drooling. By the way, did you see "Eyes Wide Shut"?

31/08/2024

Who'd have guessed? (He still should demand DNA testing for child-support issues.) [Washington Post]

31/08/2024

If only ... aha! [The New York Times]

30/08/2024

Were. [The New York Times] Hat tip: Andy Pierce

30/08/2024

Charles III not the only royal working on funeral plans.
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/uk/larry-the-cat-downing-street-chief-mouser-now-17-heres-official-plan-for-when-passes-away-4755862

29/08/2024

We guessed the bachelorette's favored pronoun, but had no idea that the CW or the NFL was so woke. [The New York Times]

29/08/2024

Maybe he's from Boston and is saying he's fun at parties. [The New York Times]

29/08/2024

The Texas attorney general says what? [Texas Monthly]

29/08/2024

Do readers really begin typing their searches with: "Here's what to know"? [The New York Times]

28/08/2024

Uh-oh. [The New York Times]

A federal appeals court said the judge overseeing the original trial, which Ms. Palin lost, had wrongly excluded evidence and might have swayed jurors as they were deliberating.

28/08/2024

Too bad. Miss Captain Kangaroo. [The New York Times]

28/08/2024

Alms for the love of journalism! [Editor & Publisher]

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette has announced the launch of its Community Journalism Project, a philanthropic initiative that will provide the newspaper’s supporters an opportunity to contribute to its mission of informing readers.

28/08/2024

Gomez, Morticia aghast. [Chicago Tribune]

28/08/2024

Interesting. [The New York Times]

The highly unusual killing had raised fears about press freedom and the risks facing local journalists.

28/08/2024

Today in "that's the art, that's the crop, make the best of it in the caption." [The New York Times]

28/08/2024

You've cut down on booze, smokes and fatty foods, so this vice is next. [The Wall Street Journal]

28/08/2024

What the columnist found: No one mistook him for 1980s Harrison Ford. [The Wall Street Journal]

28/08/2024

Coffins. Consumer advice: Don't be the second tenant. [The Wall Street Journal]