links for 2008-06-23
Posted on June 24, 2008, 12:34 am, by James, under
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“The inessentialness of copy editors is underscored by the advent of sophisticated spellchecking systems which have introduced a hole new level of error-free proofreading. No longer can we say that the editor’s penis mightier than the sword.”
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Alan Bond has lost his Federal Court bid to sue journalist Paul Barry and publisher News Limited over a story about his African business interests.
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With acquiring a strong web presence, getting a “hook” into other advertising avenues on a massive scale, and even adding to their core competencies, Google is uniquely positioned to modernize how the market thinks about the value of newspaper compani
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The news appeared on Wikipedia 40 minutes before the NBC report, with all of the verbs in Tim’s entry changed from present tense to past. It appeared on the New York Times’s web site 5 minutes before the NBC story. It zipped around Twitter all afternoon.
The article from the washington post was a classic! A great read and had some funny bits in it too. Realised there were a lot of errors, and although intentional, it shows how bad some people are at proofreading their own work, thanks.