View unanswered posts | View active topics

Page 1 of 1

[ 5 posts ]

Previous topic | Next topic

Author	Message
Jackie	Post subject: Gotta fight for your right... Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 9:29 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	From AP, which sent out a corrected version damn quick:<p>The Aug. 7, 2001 memo ... didn't mention the 70 FBI investigations into possible al-Qaida activity that Bush had been told of a day earlier in a memo entitled ``Bin Laden Entitled to Strike in U.S.,'' the officials said Monday.
Top

ram280	Post subject: Re: Gotta fight for your right... Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:05 am
Joined: Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:01 am Posts: 37 Location: Pennsylvania	OK... speaking of this memo, what is its name? I've seen it 18 different ways. I think the title page on the original memo is "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US," but that unpunctuated "US" and uppercase "To" still bug me.
Top

Jackie	Post subject: Re: Gotta fight for your right... Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 5:40 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	Ram, I hear you. The first day of stories I saw several different ways, but the concensus now seems to be "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." When we ran the text of the brief, I lower-cased the "to" and put periods in "U.S". because -- right or wrong -- I just couldn't see having it otherwise in the larger headline type. I left the body of the text alone, though. Don't want anyone to have any excuse to accuse us of changing the content.
Top

Phillip Blanchard	Post subject: Re: Gotta fight for your right... Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2004 6:53 pm
Joined: Sun Apr 07, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 8342 Location: Bethesda, Md.	Here's the brief, "redacted," of course.
Top

ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: Gotta fight for your right... Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2004 12:26 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by blanp: Here's the brief, "redacted," of course.<hr></blockquote><p>Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Top

Display posts from previous: All posts1 day7 days2 weeks1 month3 months6 months1 year Sort by AuthorPost timeSubject AscendingDescending  Previous topic | Next topic

Page 1 of 1

[ 5 posts ]

What They're Saying

"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."

Useful Links

Our 2003 ACES Handout
Our 2004 ACES Handout
Our 2005 ACES Handout
Our 2006 ACES Handout
Our 2009 ACES Handout
The Slot (Bill Walsh)
HeadsUp: The Blog
John McIntyre
Regret the Error
Banned for Life

TCE RSS Feed