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<p>Related: I wrote for Washington Post for a while (Hi, Rob)
including (back when this was a thing) writing nugget website
reviews. One was a handyman/DIY site. Post usually ran graphics --
which of course I had nothing to do with -- with these; this one
showed slotted screwdriver pointing at Phillip's head screw (or
the reverse).</p>
<p>I GOT HATE MAIL. Dozens. Many dozens. "What kind of $%^^$# idiot
are you to DARE writing about tools?!". If they weren't insane, I
had a canned response: Don't blame me; I didn't see that until I
bought the paper. That often led to funny/polite exchanges. But
some responded brutally to that and some original notes were so
bad I didn't engage. The Post made it worse by publishing
letter-to-editor mocking the article/piece. I asked (Hi, Rob) Post
to run correction/clarification/disclaimer that it was someone
ELSE's bad idea of a joke but my editor (guess who) didn't think
that would happen.</p>
<p>Same problem as author being blamed for hed -- readers can't
grasp so many roles at work.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/2019 10:46 AM, Joe Stanganelli
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<p class="MsoNormal">I can top that: On a pub that no longer
exists, the copy desk removed a joke of mine (which, if that
was the only thing they did, fine) and replaced it with a
worse, shittier “joke” that made no sense.<br>
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It was so embarrassing that I never shared the piece on
social, and distanced myself from it.<br>
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I don’t mind having my jokes removed; just please don’t change
or replace them.<br>
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I’ve actually come to expect my editors to remove my jokes;
these days, I’m surprised when one gets through.<br>
<br>
One of the inventors of CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing is named
Jennifer Doudna. In a piece I wrote a couple of years ago
about patent rights surrounding CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing, I
used the subhed “Doudna, Where’s My Cas?”<br>
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I was shocked and disappointed in my editor.</p>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] A question for everyone,
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<div dir="auto">We had a copy editor at Infoworld, "Jill," who
edited for space by deleting the last sentence in a product
review. Unfortunately, that sentence was the punchline for a
joke. When I complained, she simply replied, "I didn't think
it was funny."</div>
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<div dir="auto">Editing can be maddening.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Mac</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at
3:58 PM Tom Geller <<a href="mailto:tom@tgeller.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">tom@tgeller.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I have a good one about deleted ledes. (Getting
deleded?)
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<div>For my 2013 <a href="http://Lynda.com"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Lynda.com</a>
video course "Writing Articles" (<a
href="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/writing-articles"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.linkedin.com/learning/writing-articles</a>),
I (of course) wrote a dummy article to study. Then in
a video that shows how to construct an article, I say:</div>
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<div>"Then after everything else is done, go back and
revisit that first paragraph to make it
even stronger. One common trick is to simply delete
that first sentence and then see if it's reads any
better. A lot of writers, including me, need a
sentence or two to get into the swing of things."</div>
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<div>Sounds good, right? Except that the producers said,
"O.K., do that. Delete the first sentence." I...
hadn't planned for that. Luckily, the piece still
worked without it. I schooled myself!</div>
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