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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: No Jostling, Please Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:13 am
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Cant land a job in the sports department? Jump to the front of the line at the Idaho Press-Tribune, a 20K award winning community newspaper in Nampa, just 20 miles west of Boise by taking a copy-editing job on our news desk. We have a track record of promoting folks from the desk to sports. (Job Network) *** "Promoting." ***
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Tom Berger	Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:05 am
Joined: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:20 pm Posts: 37 Location: New York, NY	How did the paper win 20,000 awards?
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onceahack	Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:41 am
Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:39 pm Posts: 731 Location: Central Texas	No, no, no, it won a 20-kilometer race. Thus the "track record."
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Reactionary	Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:06 pm
Joined: Sun Jul 29, 2007 6:09 am Posts: 139	I believe what that is referencing is the fact the paper won one award, made out of 20-karat gold. Or diamonds.
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trimtofit	Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 2:41 pm
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 10:46 pm Posts: 583 Location: University of Kentucky	And here I thought that referred to the starting salary.
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Editer	Post subject: Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:53 pm
Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:33 pm Posts: 1225 Location: Texas	trimtofit wrote: And here I thought that referred to the starting salary. If only.
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Heartodixie	Post subject: Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:48 pm
Joined: Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:15 am Posts: 1432 Location: Alabamer	That's the first time I've ever heard of anybody seeking candidates who'd rather be sports writers. Though my last employer did bait-and-switch me by hiring me as a reporter after advertising for a copy editor. (Made me work my way up -- at least I thought I was working my way up. I guess anything that's not sports is a lateral move?)
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cobra_kai	Post subject: Re: No Jostling, Please Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:03 am
Joined: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:20 pm Posts: 431 Location: Far removed from a former career	Phillip Blanchard wrote: *** "Promoting." *** You know I can hear you from here, right?
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night train	Post subject: Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:39 pm
Joined: Sat Apr 10, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 52 Location: carlsbad, new mexico	Just the thought of moving 20 miles west of Boise is nightmarish. I don't care what type of job. Executive editor with a glass office wouldn't be enough.
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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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