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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Heavy Lifting Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:13 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	The Lawrence Journal-World is seeking an experienced leader responsible for building a community on the Lawrence.com website and working with others to create online-focused, interactive coverage of food and eating, drinks and drinking, movies, music and bands and the local arts scene. ... We offer an excellent benefits package including medical insurance, 401k, paid time off, plus employee discounts on your Sunflower Broadband cable, internet and phone services and on your Journal-World subscription. Background check, preemployment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. (JournalismJobs) *** I'm really afraid to ask why an editor has to be able to haul loads. ***
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Vanderhoof Viking	Post subject: Re: Heavy Lifting Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:20 am
Joined: Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:19 am Posts: 413 Location: Prince George, B.C.	Because you're "building a community". All that virtual wood and concrete is heavy, you know.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Re: Heavy Lifting Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 11:52 am
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	Quote: ... working with others to create online-focused, interactive coverage of food and eating, drinks and drinking, movies, music and bands and the local arts scene. Going by my experience, I'd say more college towns should be that upfront about the interests of their readers and staffs.
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Wayne Countryman	Post subject: Re: Heavy Lifting Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 2:58 pm
Joined: Mon Apr 08, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1775 Location: Baltimore	Quote: *** I'm really afraid to ask why an editor has to be able to haul loads. *** Maybe this person is his or her own IT department, with lugging computers and servers a part of the job. Maybe.
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Editer	Post subject: Re: Heavy Lifting Posted: Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:24 pm
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:33 pm Posts: 1225 Location: Texas	Wayne Countryman wrote: Quote: *** I'm really afraid to ask why an editor has to be able to haul loads. *** Maybe this person is his or her own IT department, with lugging computers and servers a part of the job. Maybe. Doubt it -- that news org has been one of the leaders nationwide at establishing and exploiting its online presence. I remain perplexed.
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"This is like group therapy with prisoners in the Poynter Institute's dungeon." ... "You take a vocation that the simple-minded consider to be mere drudgery, and you exploit every bit of fascinating and humorous nuance imaginable." ... "Delicious" ... "Ask your professors? The only professors whose opinions matter are named Walsh, Blanchard and McIntyre." ... "What I come here for, I can find ONLY here. Phillip, you've built a great place." ... "Nothing gets us hotter than reading bitchy discussion threads from over-exhausted copy editors endlessly debating the merits of "theater" versus "theatre." ... "I love this site. It's better than the Kool-Aid acid tests." ..."I'm awed at the efficiency with which matters of opinion get hashed out in this forum." ... "Phil is the bomb!" ... "I'd wager that it's exactly your sort of hidebound thinking that contributes to the problems newspapers are having attracting readers." ... "I'm totally obsessed with this site. It's like porn--if you get off on Scrabble." ... "It reveals the backstage carping and vindictive emotions that roil the souls of those trapped at the copy desks." "When they say "testy," they certainly mean it. Whether it's reporters, editors, or the general public, no one is above their savage snark." ... "An apparent crack in the thin grey line." ..."Testy Copy Editors is a bitchboard for journalism's underclass." ... "My desire to read 'Testy Copy Editors' is only rivalled by my desire to pop "Constipated Call Girls" in the DVD player." ... "Phillip Blanchard is not just a testy copy editor, but a prophet scorned in his own time, and those of us who defend wordplay will be punished for it come the Judgment Day." ... "Phil Blanchard is as dashing in person as he is at the TCE board." ... "As far as writing and editing go: Read this board, read Bill Walsh, memorize the style book, read William Zinsser, and read the New York Times. That's a good start." ... "You should let go of your bitterness. You were not the oppressed talent you thought yourself to be. You were a miserable, brooding, silent, joyless grind, lucky to have a job at the Sun-Times, and we're lucky now that you've moved on to afflict others."

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