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Dear colleagues,

I am very saddened that a further five colleagues from The Sun have been arrested this morning by the Police. It has already been widely reported the individuals involved are Geoff Webster, John Edwards, John Kay, John Sturgis and Nick Parker.

This news is difficult for everyone on The Sun and particularly for those of you who work closely with those involved. Some of the individuals arrested have been instrumental in breaking important stories about public bodies, for example the scandal of our under resourced troops in Iraq.

We must take care not to pre-judge the outcome of the police interviews. It is vitally important for all those involved that proper due process should take its course. The company has provided legal support to those interviewed today.

I remind you that News Corporation has empowered an independent body, the MSC, to cooperate fully with the Police. The M
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Dear colleagues,

I am very saddened that a further five colleagues from The Sun have been arrested this morning by the Police. It has already been widely reported the individuals involved are Geoff Webster, John Edwards, John Kay, John Sturgis and Nick Parker.

This news is difficult for everyone on The Sun and particularly for those of you who work closely with those involved. Some of the individuals arrested have been instrumental in breaking important stories about public bodies, for example the scandal of our under resourced troops in Iraq.

We must take care not to pre-judge the outcome of the police interviews. It is vitally important for all those involved that proper due process should take its course. The company has provided legal support to those interviewed today.

I remind you that News Corporation has empowered an independent body, the MSC, to cooperate fully with the Police. The M
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Sen. Mark Grisanti suffered bruised ribs in the altercation, the senator's chief of staff, Douglas Curella, said.
[AP via Kansas City Star][*]

I'm guessing that altercation is a body part located next to the fray, as in The victim was shot in the fray.

[*] And at least 338 other sites.

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Sen. Mark Grisanti suffered bruised ribs in the altercation, the senator's chief of staff, Douglas Curella, said.
[AP via Kansas City Star][*]

I'm guessing that altercation is a body part located next to the fray, as in The victim was shot in the fray.

[*] And at least 338 other sites.]]> 2012-02-11T17:49:23-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75568#p75568 Today's stop-press http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75567#p75567 Birth control hard to come by at Fordham University [LAT]

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And just one month into this year, there has been on average more than one homicide each day in Philadelphia, with many of the 34 deaths unfolding like episodes on "Law & Order."
[CNN ]

Bonus: Fun with numbers (there's always a worse place, somewhere). Also, on any given day, about 1.5 million Philadelphians aren't killed.

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Philadelphia may have the worst homicide rate of the country's most populated cities, according to the most recent complete data (see fact box on left), but it pales in comparison with less-populated U.S. cities.

Based on statistics from 2010, Philadelphia's homicide rate is about 20 killings per 100,000 people, according to FBI statistics. By comparison, cities with smaller populations have murder rates far worse than Philadelphia, including New Orleans at 49.1, St. Louis at 40.5 and Baltimore at 34.8.

Criminal justice professor Jerry Ratcliffe says it
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And just one month into this year, there has been on average more than one homicide each day in Philadelphia, with many of the 34 deaths unfolding like episodes on "Law & Order."
[CNN ]

Bonus: Fun with numbers (there's always a worse place, somewhere). Also, on any given day, about 1.5 million Philadelphians aren't killed.

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Philadelphia may have the worst homicide rate of the country's most populated cities, according to the most recent complete data (see fact box on left), but it pales in comparison with less-populated U.S. cities.

Based on statistics from 2010, Philadelphia's homicide rate is about 20 killings per 100,000 people, according to FBI statistics. By comparison, cities with smaller populations have murder rates far worse than Philadelphia, including New Orleans at 49.1, St. Louis at 40.5 and Baltimore at 34.8.

Criminal justice professor Jerry Ratcliffe says it
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Once by far the largest and fastest-growing business in the Washington Post Company, Kaplan is now a laggard. Education accounts for less operating income than two divisions that were historically less crucial to its profits, cable and broadcast television, according to the latest financial reports.

That has left the newspaper and the company’s other businesses exposed. The newsroom, once with more than 1,000 employees, now stands at less than 640 people, depleted by buyouts and staff defections. The newspaper’s Style section, once one of the most coveted assignments in American journalism, has shrunk from nearly 100 people to a quarter of that size. Bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are gone. There were so many Friday afternoon cake-cutting send-offs for departing employees last summer that editors had to coordinate them so they didn’t overlap.
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Once by far the largest and fastest-growing business in the Washington Post Company, Kaplan is now a laggard. Education accounts for less operating income than two divisions that were historically less crucial to its profits, cable and broadcast television, according to the latest financial reports.

That has left the newspaper and the company’s other businesses exposed. The newsroom, once with more than 1,000 employees, now stands at less than 640 people, depleted by buyouts and staff defections. The newspaper’s Style section, once one of the most coveted assignments in American journalism, has shrunk from nearly 100 people to a quarter of that size. Bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago are gone. There were so many Friday afternoon cake-cutting send-offs for departing employees last summer that editors had to coordinate them so they didn’t overlap.
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If the defense team has one advantage, it’s that the burden of proof lies with the prosecution. You may already know this, but when you’re sitting in court watching a case of this magnitude, it’s important to remind yourself that the defense doesn’t have to prove Mr. Huguely’s innocence one bit. All they need to do is convince the reasonable ladies and gentleman of the jury that his guilt is in doubt. It only needs to be possible, reasonably possible, that there might be another explanation for the series of events laid before you. And if you think about how many arguments in your life have started with “That’s not what happened,” or “I never said that,” then you can begin to grasp the absurd complexity of a murder trial.
[ C-Ville Charlottesville News and Arts[//url]...

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If the defense team has one advantage, it’s that the burden of proof lies with the prosecution. You may already know this, but when you’re sitting in court watching a case of this magnitude, it’s important to remind yourself that the defense doesn’t have to prove Mr. Huguely’s innocence one bit. All they need to do is convince the reasonable ladies and gentleman of the jury that his guilt is in doubt. It only needs to be possible, reasonably possible, that there might be another explanation for the series of events laid before you. And if you think about how many arguments in your life have started with “That’s not what happened,” or “I never said that,” then you can begin to grasp the absurd complexity of a murder trial.
[ C-Ville Charlottesville News and Arts[//url]...]]> 2012-02-10T11:14:24-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75563#p75563 Down the ol' memory hole http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75561#p75561 Quote:
A story about the potential bid by Blatstein appeared briefly on the Daily News blog “Clout” but was taken down and replaced by a management statement saying the newspaper company is not currently talking to Blatstein.

Asked why the statement replaced the post, spokesman Mark Block says it was “editorial discretion.”

“We have the discretion to do what we like on philly.com.”

Sources say that the papers have been ordered not to report stories about Blatstein’s group, allegedly because the publisher prefers the Rendell-led group, which has stated it would keep the current management of the papers in place.
[ CBS Philadelphia, Feb.7]

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A spokesman for Philadelphia Media Network, which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, has apologized for the removal of a reporter’s story earlier this week from the philly.com web site.

It’s part of a reversal of policy about reporting on the sale of the company.

The Inquirer today published a story ab
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A story about the potential bid by Blatstein appeared briefly on the Daily News blog “Clout” but was taken down and replaced by a management statement saying the newspaper company is not currently talking to Blatstein.

Asked why the statement replaced the post, spokesman Mark Block says it was “editorial discretion.”

“We have the discretion to do what we like on philly.com.”

Sources say that the papers have been ordered not to report stories about Blatstein’s group, allegedly because the publisher prefers the Rendell-led group, which has stated it would keep the current management of the papers in place.
[ CBS Philadelphia, Feb.7]

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A spokesman for Philadelphia Media Network, which owns the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, has apologized for the removal of a reporter’s story earlier this week from the philly.com web site.

It’s part of a reversal of policy about reporting on the sale of the company.

The Inquirer today published a story ab
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While fertile land is abundant in Egypt, particularly along the Nile river, the country relies on foreign producers for nearly all of its agricultural needs — including wheat.
[Washington Post]

In fact, Egypt ranks 174th on one tally of arable land, with less than 3 percent. [The United States, with 18 percent, ranks 65th.]

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While fertile land is abundant in Egypt, particularly along the Nile river, the country relies on foreign producers for nearly all of its agricultural needs — including wheat.
[Washington Post]

In fact, Egypt ranks 174th on one tally of arable land, with less than 3 percent. [The United States, with 18 percent, ranks 65th.]]]> 2012-02-10T07:31:58-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75560#p75560 This and that http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75559#p75559 Quote:
As a fact-checker myself, at this magazine, the prospect of reading such a book—of such a book existing—excited me. I find fact-checking fascinating, and know from several years of practicing the craft that it can be a complicated, nuanced process, and one that is an extremely important part of publishing a magazine of journalistic integrity. (John McPhee wrote about The New Yorker’s storied fact-checking department in 2009.) But “The Lifespan of a Fact,” is not, as I had hoped, an intimate dissection of the endeavor. It’s a portrait—a rather dull one, ultimately—of a young, earnest intern, and a writer who is a total jerk, or at least posturing as one for cheap effect.
[ NewYorker ]

Bonus: The writer of the piece being fact-checked thinks of himself as an artist, not a journalist....

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As a fact-checker myself, at this magazine, the prospect of reading such a book—of such a book existing—excited me. I find fact-checking fascinating, and know from several years of practicing the craft that it can be a complicated, nuanced process, and one that is an extremely important part of publishing a magazine of journalistic integrity. (John McPhee wrote about The New Yorker’s storied fact-checking department in 2009.) But “The Lifespan of a Fact,” is not, as I had hoped, an intimate dissection of the endeavor. It’s a portrait—a rather dull one, ultimately—of a young, earnest intern, and a writer who is a total jerk, or at least posturing as one for cheap effect.
[ NewYorker ]

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“As long as you’re going to places outside the affected areas,” he said, “you’re going to see a relatively benign security environment.”
[MSNBC]

Translation: If you visit Mexico, tour the parts where the drug gangs aren't beheading people.

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“As long as you’re going to places outside the affected areas,” he said, “you’re going to see a relatively benign security environment.”
[MSNBC]

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Hot Covers! One Prince, Three Sisters, Lots of Breakups

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What grabbed shoppers' eyes at the grocery checkout this past year? "Teresa's Prison Nightmare: My Life Without Joe" and "Teen Mom Farrah: Why She Gave Up Her Baby."

For celebrity magazines, this is the week of reckoning. The year-end Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers are tallied, revealing which celebrities and story lines attracted the most readers on newsstands—and who bombed.

People who owe their fame to reality TV accounted for about 40% of the covers of the six major celebrity weekly magazines in 2011, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal. And editors say they have been relying more and more on reality-TV stars to fill their pages over the past few years.
[[url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577209122444911332.html?google_editors_picks=true][/[url]...

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What grabbed shoppers' eyes at the grocery checkout this past year? "Teresa's Prison Nightmare: My Life Without Joe" and "Teen Mom Farrah: Why She Gave Up Her Baby."

For celebrity magazines, this is the week of reckoning. The year-end Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers are tallied, revealing which celebrities and story lines attracted the most readers on newsstands—and who bombed.

People who owe their fame to reality TV accounted for about 40% of the covers of the six major celebrity weekly magazines in 2011, according to an analysis by The Wall Street Journal. And editors say they have been relying more and more on reality-TV stars to fill their pages over the past few years.
[[url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204136404577209122444911332.html?google_editors_picks=true][/[url]...]]> 2012-02-09T12:42:09-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75556#p75556 Complete the headline! http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75555#p75555 Mindful Eating as Food for _______ [Times]

Clue: 10,000-plus search results, and that's just in the Times in the last 30 days.

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Clue: 10,000-plus search results, and that's just in the Times in the last 30 days.]]> 2012-02-09T12:33:03-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75555#p75555 Re: Times are tough, but really. http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75554#p75554 Attachment:
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[Queenslander, 1871]]]> 2012-02-09T12:27:08-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75554#p75554 Fun with numbers http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75553#p75553 Quote:
The Senate last passed a budget 1,106 days ago—that would be almost three years—and now the White House is telling Democrats not to bother this year either.
[WSJ]

Also, there's no money in the budget for a calculator.

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The Senate last passed a budget 1,106 days ago—that would be almost three years—and now the White House is telling Democrats not to bother this year either.
[WSJ]

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As the headline appeared on the sites of the Journal, Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated and the Sacramento Bee, and likely other places that don't edit raw wire copy they inflict on their readers.

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As the headline appeared on the sites of the Journal, Huffington Post, Sports Illustrated and the Sacramento Bee, and likely other places that don't edit raw wire copy they inflict on their readers.]]> 2012-02-09T11:20:03-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75552#p75552 Re: Test time http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75548#p75548 Statistics : Posted by fev • on Tue Feb 07, 2012 12:36 pm • Replies 1 • Views 257

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All three of the states that vote today are of a fair size, and they will each send lots of delegates to the convention: Colorado, thirty-six; Minnesota, forty, Missouri, fifty-two. Of the states that have voted so far, only Florida was bigger, with fifty delegates.
[New Yorker][*]

[*] Florida has more than three times as many people as Missouri, but Missouri didn't fiddle with its primary date. That fiddling cost Florida half its convention delegates.

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All three of the states that vote today are of a fair size, and they will each send lots of delegates to the convention: Colorado, thirty-six; Minnesota, forty, Missouri, fifty-two. Of the states that have voted so far, only Florida was bigger, with fifty delegates.
[New Yorker][*]

[*] Florida has more than three times as many people as Missouri, but Missouri didn't fiddle with its primary date. That fiddling cost Florida half its convention delegates.]]> 2012-02-07T18:39:59-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75547#p75547 Re: British press survey http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75546#p75546 Statistics : Posted by J Kaufman • on Tue Feb 07, 2012 5:53 pm • Replies 1 • Views 207

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Jazzy prose that occasionally lets go of “proper usage” is Leonard’s trademark. He’s a stylist of forward motion, placing narrative acceleration above inconveniences like pronouns and helping verbs. While this creates in most readers a heightened sense of excitement, newcomers may find the transition from complete sentences daunting; it may take a little time to accept Leonard’s prose before you allow it to do its work on you. I’ll admit to having to make such an adjustment when beginning “Raylan.” At the same time, I’m also a novelist who lives in fear of my copy editor; being such a coward, I can’t help respecting Leonard’s grammatical bravery.
[ Times[//url]...

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Jazzy prose that occasionally lets go of “proper usage” is Leonard’s trademark. He’s a stylist of forward motion, placing narrative acceleration above inconveniences like pronouns and helping verbs. While this creates in most readers a heightened sense of excitement, newcomers may find the transition from complete sentences daunting; it may take a little time to accept Leonard’s prose before you allow it to do its work on you. I’ll admit to having to make such an adjustment when beginning “Raylan.” At the same time, I’m also a novelist who lives in fear of my copy editor; being such a coward, I can’t help respecting Leonard’s grammatical bravery.
[ Times[//url]...]]> 2012-02-06T08:59:25-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75540#p75540 How cats edit copy http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75539#p75539
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The anatomy of a hit song has remained a mystery to researchers looking to dissect what makes some songs soar to the top of the charts and others land with an embarrassing flop.

Thus far, figuring out what qualities may link very different anthems — say, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" — has been more a matter of alchemy than science.

Now European researchers are challenging that notion. Using 50 years' worth of hit songs on Britain's top 40 charts, they've come up with a computer program that can predict whether a song will catch fire on the airwaves or fizzle out.
[LAT ]

The secret: Seeing how much a song is like previous hits and flops, assigning values to factors such as length, loudness and tempo, then coming up with a number. Then the researchers...

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The anatomy of a hit song has remained a mystery to researchers looking to dissect what makes some songs soar to the top of the charts and others land with an embarrassing flop.

Thus far, figuring out what qualities may link very different anthems — say, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" and LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" — has been more a matter of alchemy than science.

Now European researchers are challenging that notion. Using 50 years' worth of hit songs on Britain's top 40 charts, they've come up with a computer program that can predict whether a song will catch fire on the airwaves or fizzle out.
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The secret: Seeing how much a song is like previous hits and flops, assigning values to factors such as length, loudness and tempo, then coming up with a number. Then the researchers...]]> 2012-02-05T11:10:03-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75538#p75538 Re: Today's P.U.! http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75537#p75537 Statistics : Posted by Phillip Blanchard • on Sat Feb 04, 2012 10:09 pm • Replies 1 • Views 377

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]]> 2012-02-04T20:43:43-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75535#p75535 I think a few people live there, too ... http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75534#p75534 Quote:
Steven R. Appleton, chairman and chief executive of Micron Technology Inc. and one of the most prominent figures in the semiconductor industry, died Friday when the high-performance airplane he was piloting crashed at Boise, Idaho's airport.

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Steven R. Appleton, chairman and chief executive of Micron Technology Inc. and one of the most prominent figures in the semiconductor industry, died Friday when the high-performance airplane he was piloting crashed at Boise, Idaho's airport.
]]> 2012-02-04T15:35:19-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75534#p75534 Great Questions of Science http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75532#p75532 Does Donald Trump support matter?

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]]> Does Donald Trump support matter?]]> 2012-02-03T15:26:06-05:00 http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75532#p75532 The perils of thinking http://www.testycopyeditors.org/phpBB3/./viewtopic.php?p=75531#p75531 Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study [Reuters]

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