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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Some secretarial duties included Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:23 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	After reading ads like this, I confess: I'm not sure any longer just what the hell a "copy editor" is. The news desk works afternoons and evenings, wrapping up by 10:30 p.m. unless we have late-breaking news. The eight-member team work split weekend shifts, either Tuesday through Saturday or Sunday through Thursday. In addition to the news section, the team is responsible for weekly feature sections and some monthly special sections, plus processing e-mail from our readers.
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:28 am
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	I wouldn't be too alarmed by the words in bold. It's a damn sight easier than clearing the telex machine every 20 minutes.
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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:24 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	Telex machine?
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KfitzR	Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:17 pm
Joined: Thu Apr 18, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 836 Location: New Brunswick, Canada	Surely clearing the Telex is copyboy's work, along with spooling tape and clothespinning it to the appropriate wire stories.
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Wabberjocky	Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:26 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:47 pm Posts: 1734 Location: Washington	Is this before or after he polishes everybody's green eyeshades? Last edited by Wabberjocky on Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:59 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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paulwiggins	Post subject: Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:07 pm
Joined: Wed Oct 08, 2003 12:01 am Posts: 3137 Location: Homebush NSW Australia	KfitzR wrote: Surely clearing the Telex is copyboy's work, along with spooling tape and clothespinning it to the appropriate wire stories. In the year in question, we had no copyboys and at one stage the copy and production chief sat on the only piece of furniture available - a milk crate, clutching a pica pole. Start-ups are fun. It should be noted that various pieces of automation wizardry can reduce the time spent processing readers emails to next to nix.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:59 am
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Unless it's in a dog food factory (I worked at one), stay away from any job with a description that includes "processing."
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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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