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It's always the mistake that is right in front of you that you miss. You won't miss a comma in paragraph 8, line 3 but you will miss a badly misspelled or misused word on the cover or in the title. Has happened to me a couple times.

But I will say the amphibious pitcher is a pretty funny blunder.
 
Destiny's Child said:
In alabama but I publish a national magazine. I have lived all over though and have published many different titles over the last 24 years.

How about You? Do you work in the media too?
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I do not.

Your longevity in a form of media that is nearly obsolete in the age of blogs and 120 character news stories (Twitter) speaks to your value in the print biz. Kudos to sustaining your career, despite the social media boom the last 5-10 years.

National magazine? Which one? I have an idea, but not sure.
 
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Sgt. Lincoln Osiris said:
I do not.

Your longevity in a form of media that is nearly obsolete in the age of blogs and 120 character news stories (Twitter) speaks to your value in the print biz. Kudos to sustaining your career, despite the social media boom the last 5-10 years.

National magazine? Which one? I have an idea, but not sure.
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I work in the trade magazine world right now so it isn't something that you would see in the public setting. But I would rather not say which one just in case I upset someone someday..lol. sounds crazy but it keeps you out of trouble. There are some strange vindictive people out there.

Thank you for the compliment. I was blessed with the ability to understand marketing, advertising and promotion. It just always made sense to me. And if you can help drive ad sales you will have a job in media. Because no matter what they say, ultimately, every media company only exists to sell more advertising.
 
Sgt. Lincoln Osiris said:
I do not.

Your longevity in a form of media that is nearly obsolete in the age of blogs and 120 character news stories (Twitter) speaks to your value in the print biz. Kudos to sustaining your career, despite the social media boom the last 5-10 years.
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I guess you can blame it on the YouTube generation. Knee deep in the age of social media and people act like they have the attention span of a gnat.
 
It use to be that people in this business actually cared about about editorial credibility. An editor or a producer felt if their show, paper or magazine wasn't trusted then they had no value. Then it slowly became well we will do a story were we don't use the language to say it's a fact we will just use words that gives us an out but is favorable to our cause or our advertiser. And now it's become bias on one side versus bias on the other side and no one trusts anything coming out of the media.

The newspapers and soon to be cable network/ broadcast news have done it to themselves. They stopped doing their due dilegence, they stopped caring about credibility, they sold out completely and are no longer a reliable place for intelligent people to get news. Which means advertisers will find more effective places to spend their money and these places will continue to go tits up.

I hope someone with some money and backing goes out there and puts out a news broadcast that just does it right. Reports opinion as opinion, facts and news stories as facts and just focuses on being right not being first. I have a feeling that there is an appetite for that out there now and it would be a home run.

There are too many snakes out in social media for that to be where people get there info from but right now people trust it more than the networks. We maybe too far gone to even find anyone who knows how to do that anymore but it will be the only thing that will save the traditional media from itself.
 
Destiny's Child said:
It use to be that people in this business actually cared about about editorial credibility. An editor or a producer felt if their show, paper or magazine wasn't trusted then they had no value. Then it slowly became well we will do a story were we don't use the language to say it's a fact we will just use words that gives us an out but is favorable to our cause or our advertiser. And now it's become bias on one side versus bias on the other side and no one trusts anything coming out of the media.

The newspapers and soon to be cable network/ broadcast news have done it to themselves. They stopped doing their due dilegence, they stopped caring about credibility, they sold out completely and are no longer a reliable place for intelligent people to get news. Which means advertisers will find more effective places to spend their money and these places will continue to go tits up.

I hope someone with some money and backing goes out there and puts out a news broadcast that just does it right. Reports opinion as opinion, facts and news stories as facts and just focuses on being right not being first. I have a feeling that there is an appetite for that out there now and it would be a home run.

There are too many snakes out in social media for that to be where people get there info from but right now people trust it more than the networks. We maybe too far gone to even find anyone who knows how to do that anymore but it will be the only thing that will save the traditional media from itself.
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Yeah, it would be nice if mass media would stay independent and just report facts. Sadly, they're nothing more than propaganda outlets now.
 
Destiny's Child said:
It's always the mistake that is right in front of you that you miss. You won't miss a comma in paragraph 8, line 3 but you will miss a badly misspelled or misused word on the cover or in the title. Has happened to me a couple times.
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It's the complete opposite with me. The misspelled words jump out like a horrible cold sore will on someone's face.

I've been taught to proofread since the K / 1st grade and to this day I'll still read over things out loud--well, in a slight whisper. The biggest problem I see is so many journalist don't even bother. If spell check doesn't catch it, it's submit and go.
 
TerryP said:
It's the complete opposite with me. The misspelled words jump out like a horrible cold sore will on someone's face.

I've been taught to proofread since the K / 1st grade and to this day I'll still read over things out loud--well, in a slight whisper. The biggest problem I see is so many journalist don't even bother. If spell check doesn't catch it, it's submit and go.
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I once had a Front cover that came out that said Presidental instead of Presidential in the main Bi-line. We mailed our mistake out 62,000 times and felt like I fielded that many phone calls, emails, and faxes correcting it for me.
 
Destiny's Child said:
We mailed our mistake out 62,000 times and felt like I fielded that many phone calls, emails, and faxes correcting it for me.
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I'm thankful, daily, that I was given the option to work at nights and avoid such phone calls (IF they happened to come up.) The vast majority of my editing now is on ad copy and lord knows...some of these business owners just can't spell (and the ad sales department isn't a heck of a lot better...I know I pissed one off a few weeks ago when I sent back some copy with instructions to change the word to thieyr're.)

I've had a few good laughs scrolling through @grammar on Twitter.

And, on a positive note, I thought one of the most ingenious ideas for marketing came a few years ago when Snickers bought thousands of ad related space(s) through Google surrounding the most commonly misspelled words/search items.
 
TerryP said:
I'm thankful, daily, that I was given the option to work at nights and avoid such phone calls (IF they happened to come up.) The vast majority of my editing now is on ad copy and lord knows...some of these business owners just can't spell (and the ad sales department isn't a heck of a lot better...I know I pissed one off a few weeks ago when I sent back some copy with instructions to change the word to thieyr're.)

I've had a few good laughs scrolling through @grammar on Twitter.

And, on a positive note, I thought one of the most ingenious ideas for marketing came a few years ago when Snickers bought thousands of ad related space(s) through Google surrounding the most commonly misspelled words/search items.
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Would have been dang hard for Mark Twain and Festus to make a living with you proofreading their stuff.
 
TUSKstuff said:
Would have been dang hard for Mark Twain and Festus to make a living with you proofreading their stuff.
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Funny thing about Clemens is his wife was a horrible speller and yet she was the one who edited the majority of his manuscripts. He's not alone. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yeats, and Earnest Hemingway--just to name a few--had bad spelling habits as well.

Speaking of Twain...I recall reading one piece of his where he goes on about seeing no value in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. He goes on to compare it to everyone dressing alike, everyone cooking alike ... yep, a bit of hyperbole there at the end, but you get his point.
 
TerryP said:
Funny thing about Clemens is his wife was a horrible speller and yet she was the one who edited the majority of his manuscripts. He's not alone. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Yeats, and Earnest Hemingway--just to name a few--had bad spelling habits as well.

Speaking of Twain...I recall reading one piece of his where he goes on about seeing no value in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. He goes on to compare it to everyone dressing alike, everyone cooking alike ... yep, a bit of hyperbole there at the end, but you get his point.
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I could see how having a well-trained etymologist on staff for quality control would have been a total waste of time.
 
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