47 Replies to “My Editor Hates Me”

  3. From the same school as the CBC writer who, when referring to periodic table changes, informed us that “atomic number refers to the number of protons in an atom’s nucleus while atomic weight refers to the number of isotopes of an element.”
    They didn’t bother going to a chemist to fact-check and correct the error…they just deleted the entire paragraph.

  6. Come on! Grammar and math are hard. Can’t we devise some kind of Journo-centric curriculum to help these victims of society’s heartless, rigid spelling rules?

  8. They will have to go some to beat the Peterborough Examiner, who once upon a time (must have been around 1983) spoke in reverential terms of the secret ballet, and called for an end to torcher.
    I am not making that up.

  9. CTV News had a banner headline a few days ago, something about Canada “towing the American line” on global warmening. Uh, that’s “toeing the line” you idiots.

  10. What is a “city public” since he has a beef with it, him/her, or them?
    Of course the author might have meant :-
    “After he made public his beef with the city, Klassen received….”
    There are certain things up with which one should not put.

  12. I recall our local Ottawa Valley paper once referring to “the Queen’s rein” and no, it wasn’t about her horse, as well as peddling your bicycle. This was a Carleton J-school grad. Used to give me a headache to read that paper.
    These are the people that sneer at those of us with Grade 12 educations? Why I’m amazed that I can correctly add 10+10 without taking off my socks!

  13. More importantly, what happened to the good old days when you could not only run an extension cord but practically rebuild an engine on the street as long as the car was up on safety blocks? (even in classy neighbourhoods).
    Oh well, I guess all the backyard mechanics went out of business because of bylaws– I heard that a lot of them got jobs as journalists…

  15. Even the self-touted BBC declared one area has
    -99 c or f temperature. No one caught it!

  16. It’s okay, anonymous GlobalEdmonton reporter, I feel for you, buddy. Some people have bad hair days, others of us are typing, grammar and editing challenged. Don’t let the word police get you down. 😉

  17. The other day the CBC had an accident and a ‘grater’in Montreal I think. I asked if that was like a zest grater?

  19. There’s an awning on a street next to me giving the address “xxxx Twelveth Avenue”. A few blocks away, there is a brass plaque with a dress code, one of which states “no atheletic gear”.
    But seriously. Twelveth. On a large awning. Let alone the fact they made it, nobody cares to fix it.

  22. “Card Blanche”
    Any odds on whether this journalist describes him/herself as “fluently bilingual”?

  26. I think the reel issue hear isn’t spelling? I’m worried now that all the people whith a card blanche are going to use that card to just through all kinds of cabals a cross walkways. Who is going to stop that

  28. Good thing you commented 3 times. Is internet your second language?
    That’s what happens when it tells you three times that your login has “failed”.

  29. Phantom I was going for ruling class status. How many posters on the CBC know what a zest grater is?

  30. Perhaps I am more observant than most…..ever notice how often some folks trip over a crack in a side-walk…….slide their vehicle into another on a gravel strewn intersection…..find “black ice”….
    Here in Morontario, each year more and more median barriers are erected on 400 series highways, at massive cost, because the idiots keep crossing the commedian into oncoming traffic……
    I think it was Allen Funt posted “wet paint” signs on dry objects then filmed all the loons who just had to touch it…..

  32. The Peterborough Examiner, Peter O’Donnell?
    Robertson Davies would have been rolling in his grave.

  33. I’m not sure this can top the journalist who covered the Blair/Hitchens’ debate a few weeks ago who referred to “luminous” as “luminist.”
    Oy vey.
    What are they teaching in school — let alone journalism — these days?

  35. Hey, as any fule know, a zest grater is much like a cheese grater, but applied with greater zest…

  36. There’s a yawning on the street when I read, as I did today, on the front page, the whopper-banger-cor-wotta-surprize-world-important story in the Ottawa Valley newspaper, The Citizen: “Snow in Canada”.

  37. I don’t know if this guy was a journalist or not but his hog getting gassed up had “Harley Davison” painted on the tank in big bold One Shot 🙂

  38. Ah, I think back to the 1960s when the Summerside Urinal Pioneer (actually Journal Pioneer) switched the photos of Profumo (he of call-girl fame) and the Pope. And the local BC paper that said llamas could survive in Canada because of their alpaca coats… Journalism must be the last resort of the otherwise unemployable.

  39. Josephine, you are possibly sadly correct.
    To many, being competent means owning the books and knowing the industry insiders and sharing their opinions and outlooks.
    This is not the way it’s supposed to work!

  40. “A few blocks away, there is a brass plaque with a dress code, one of which states “no atheletic gear”.”
    Unlike news articles, signs often go unnoticed! I’ve had schools and hospitals call years after installation finding spelling errors for the first time. Often it’s the French portion.
    It’s funny phenomena, usually an error will go totally unnoticed for a long period of time, then suddenly EVERYONE notices at once and I’m flooded with phone calls & emails. Also, suddenly it becomes an extremely urgent matter that must be corrected immediately, even though it’s been that way for years.

  41. there is a sign at the university of Calgary that points to the “eduation block” which I assume is where they train the future teachers of our children.

  42. “there is a sign at the university of Calgary that points to the “eduation block””
    I’m innocent! However if you ever find yourself in the UofM, UofW, or the General Hospital of the HSC….

  43. Deliberately missing (ignoring) the subject, I would just like to comment that when I attended U of S (about 40 years ago), people avoided creating a tripping hazard with extension cords by erecting frames to extend the cords OVER the sidewalks to their cars, 7 feet above the walking surface.
    Simple.

  46. Yesterday’s article in the Globe and Mail on the Canadian World Junior Hockey selections had one of their goalies playing for a team that hasn’t existed in 15 years. Either journalists are getting dumber or lazier. Neither is good for them when their business is on the verge of dying.

  47. The reporter needs to be reminded that capitalization is important, too.
    To wit:
    “Capitalization is the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse and… helping your uncle jack off a horse.” — Ken Fritts

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