Friday, September 25, 2009

Herald-Leader copy desk editor laid off, errors ensue

John McIntyre points out what happens when good copy editors are axed.

Yesterday the Lexington Herald-Leader laid off Brian Throckmorton, who oversaw the copy desk. Mr. Throckmorton, an amiable colleague, is an energetic editor with good ideas and high standards. I have watched him conduct workshops on editing in mute admiration.


His departure is one more depressing instance of the purge of talent and ability taking place at the nation’s newspapers, and the consequences for those papers will not be good.


McIntyre notes two spelling goofs in the date, pictured below.

Hat tip (and photo credit): Charles Apple
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Looks like a dyslectic minority hire

Anonymous said...

Yo, Wassup all!!! McClacthy got yor 6!

Anonymous said...

That's dyslexic, you racist moron.

Anonymous said...

Newspapers are an essentially human capital enterprise. While corporate seems to be on a forced march to paper profits, the carnage in the human capital of McClatchy will destroy the product and damage the people affected. My only reaction to posts like this is sadness for the people who produce and who still read the paper.
When this forced march is over, the heart and soul of the individual McClatchy papers will be gone too.

Anonymous said...

Even more sad: I doubt the tiny number of readers who noticed "Thurday" care at all. And folks working at newspapers are a bit deluded in thinking that readers get worked up about tiny, understandable errors ... readers are leaving newspapers for a whole different set of reasons, and the folks at papers seem to be oblivious to them.

Anonymous said...

Even more sad: I doubt the tiny number of readers who noticed "Thurday" care at all. And folks working at newspapers are a bit deluded in thinking that readers get worked up about tiny, understandable errors ... readers are leaving newspapers for a whole different set of reasons, and the folks at papers seem to be oblivious to them.