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Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Presented Without Comment Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 9:48 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	ARTnews magazine seeks an on-site freelance copy editor and typist. (Mediabistro.com)
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longwords	Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:15 pm
Joined: Fri May 06, 2005 8:31 pm Posts: 552 Location: Pennsylvania	I saw that one. Here's another for the no-comment list (from journalismjobs.com): Quote: Philadelphia newspaper seeks an online editor to manage the development of our website, which includes both print-to-online content as well as web exclusives. The online editor will conceive and edit materials for website, integrate creative and compelling text, still images, and links into a well-designed and provocative package. This is a full-time job that necessitates being in the office with super fun people five days a week. Get in touch for more info.
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onceahack	Post subject: Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:54 pm
Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:39 pm Posts: 731 Location: Central Texas	"Conceive"? Is that code for "invent"?
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gdcfa	Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:06 am
Joined: Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:16 am Posts: 190 Location: Canada, eh?	Reporter: "Should we verify some of these facts?" Editor: "Nah, screw it."
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dmfugitive	Post subject: Re: Presented Without Comment Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:44 am
Joined: Sun Apr 14, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 257 Location: back in D.M., funny enough	ARTnews wrote: an on-site freelance copy editor and typist. Lemme guess: You work in their office, according to their schedule, on their equipment, and yet somehow you're a "freelancer" who qualifies for no benefits. Ah, the freedom of self-employment! A-holes.
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gdcfa	Post subject: Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:58 am
Joined: Fri Jun 02, 2006 10:16 am Posts: 190 Location: Canada, eh?	That wouldn't work in the Great White North. The Canada Revenue Agency (the effin tax collector) has rules about that, so if you tried to be an "on-site freelancer," the employer would simply be held responsible for back taxes, Canada Pension Plan contributions, and Employment Insurance premiums... the employee's share and the company's share. Protection for the workers. However, the company would have to get caught, first, so someone would have to rat them out.
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Le Petomane	Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:20 am
Joined: Sat Jul 24, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 402 Location: Moulin Rouge	Quote: super fun people No doubt.
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Nessie3	Post subject: Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:50 am
Joined: Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:03 am Posts: 1224 Location: Japan	Le Petomane wrote: Quote: super fun people No doubt. Plus super testy people? Recipe for somethin'.
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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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