{"id":1468,"date":"2008-09-25T14:09:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T13:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2008-09-25T14:12:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T13:12:22","slug":"revenge-of-the-copy-editors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/09\/revenge-of-the-copy-editors\/","title":{"rendered":"Revenge of the copy editors&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">R<\/span>emember the majestically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/jul\/23\/mediamonkey\" target=\"_blank\">ireful email<\/a> from irked restaurant reviewer <strong>Giles Coren<\/strong> to his copy editors at the <strong><em>Times<\/em><\/strong>?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In brief:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wrote: &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of ros\u00e9 and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for a nosh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It appeared as: &#8220;I can&#8217;t think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of ros\u00e9 and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for nosh.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There is no length issue. This is someone thinking &#8220;I&#8217;ll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate cunt and i know best&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you fucking don&#8217;t.<br \/>\nThis was shit, shit sub-editing&#8230;[etc.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now comes this dramatic reconstruction of how the mistake might have occurred&#8230; [HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shandypockets.com\/\"><strong>Paul Oswell<\/strong><\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/adammacqueen.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Adam MacQueen<\/strong><\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DNTaH_QxNVQ&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/DNTaH_QxNVQ&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the majestically ireful email from irked restaurant reviewer Giles Coren to his copy editors at the Times?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1825,1733,2408,1826,1417],"class_list":["post-1468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-copy-editors","tag-giles-coren","tag-journalism","tag-sub-editors","tag-the-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}