SocraticGadfly: copy editing
Showing posts with label copy editing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copy editing. Show all posts

October 18, 2008

A strange way to write a headline at the Snooze

Attention, Dallas Morning News copy editors/page designers:

Cars don’t kill people, car drivers do, unless an unattended car has its “Park” lock shear off or something.

And, it takes two people to byline a story that short? Is this make-work before the next layoff ax?

October 06, 2006

The word is “using”

I can’t stand government press releases that talk about “utilizing” something. That’s it. Carry on — with better English.