[Ipg-smz] A question for everyone, particularly Esther Schindler

[Carol Pinchefsky]

Christine: re: science fiction story. At least typesetting woes are funny woes.

Joe: "Doudna, Where’s My Cas?” is an awesome title and should be repeated early and often.

Mac: re: “I did’t think it was funny.” Dude, that was harsh of her. 

Alan: re: cheeseburgers. Wow. This guy must really hate hamburgers or really hate you. It really is a perfect example of editorial intrusion, so at least you get a story out of it.

Esther: The rest of the article is me. Of course, she stepped on my closing sentence. Sigh.

Carol


> 
> In the late 90s a copy editor for a print paper reworded a graf to change my opinion from pro to con. When I spoke to her about it, her reaction was simply that "writers often don't like to be edited," and couldn't see that my objection was to her changing the meaning of what I'd written. At that point, I marched into the editor's office (I had a long term relationship with him) and showed him the problem. That copy editor never touched my copy after that.
> 
> Back in the 70s I wrote a short story for a low budget Canadian Science Fiction magazine. Something went wrong with the typesetting, so in the edition it had the first half of the story repeated twice, without the second half.
> 
> Christine Hall
> Publisher & Editor
> FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
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> 
> On 2/8/19 10:53 AM, Daniel Dern wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 Feb 2019, Joe Stanganelli wrote:
>>> I don’t mind having my jokes removed; just please don’t change or replace
>>> them.
>> Yeah, there was a ComputerWorld article whose lede was changed to be, as far as I was concerned, dissing my fellow nerds. The copy editor for my Internet book who tried deleting some of the jokes (thankfully, my contract said I had final approval), and one of my humorous columns for InformationWeek, which, while all of editorial was out for a multi-day retreat, was 50+% rewritten by a temp/freelance/intern... who didn't bother mentioning that they'd taken a few, ahem, liberties. And, it being hardcopy, wasn't fixable.
>> OTOH, some is inevitable and not malicious. E.g., back in those pre-Internet days, one of my first music reviews for the Boston Globe lost the last inch or so or copy -- which, of course, had the wrap-up -- to a late-arriving ad. That taught me that, for articles and venues like this, to keep the important stuff up front, rather than "build to a boffo finish."
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