Comments on: Spell Check Can’t Replace Proofreaders

By: Razzbar

Razzbar — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:21:32 +0000

I’m pretty good at picking out spelling and grammar errors, but I had to look pretty hard to find the error.

That is, if it is an error.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 09:18:07 +0000

Are these the same police who had to watch the strip shows over and over to decide they were illegal?
Those poor guys sure have a rough job.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:14:34 +0000

If the police are spending time check out sexting on the computers, then doesn’t that make them guilty of child pornography?
They have to down load it to present a case. Hummmmm maybe we ought to be prosecuting them.
Just a thought.

By: JimV

JimV — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:27:46 +0000

I was impressed by reducing the size of the thing and then raising the price 50%…chutzpah

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:25:18 +0000

Skooker reid: Thanks for the compliment! — gp

Yep, the pubic meetings etc. are one of the most-dreaded typos in the business.

Another one I remember that really touched off a furor was when a story in the Sports section (which had its own reporters, copy editors, etc., separate from “news”) about the Little Britches Rodeo came out with the headline “Little Bitches Rodeo.”

Another fun one was when The Statesman’s style for engagements announcements was “Mr. and Mrs. John Jones are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Joanne Jones. Her fiance is Jerry Smith, son of …”
One day every one of them came out with “her finance is …”

Most of the brides-to-be found it humorous; the “finances” thought it was hilarious; but some of the mothers of the brides-to-be were downright irate.
No sense of humor, those women.
(And, no, that one didn’t go through me.)

By: dog

dog — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:56:32 +0000

Not going to the Pubic Forum. Just a bunch of crabby folks itching to have their say.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:10:23 +0000

Guardian Readers Beware! Those “pubic forums” are full of cops pretending to be teenage girls!! (Or so I’ve heard.)
(-;

Fond memories.

My first money-earning job was delivering the afternoon edition of the Statesman, M-F. It cost 35 cents a week. (45 cents would get you either morning or afternoon, plus the big Sunday paper.)

At the time, there was no spell-check, other than the typesetters who manually assembled the page, character-by-character, backwards (!), using lead type. I occasionally got a glimpse of that amazing operation. (Including the vats full of bubbling molten lead, with a guy casting more characters. Yeah… the EPA would shut ’em down nowadays…)

By: skooker reid

skooker reid — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:21:35 +0000

When Gordon Peterson retired, quality control in the “slot” went south. He knew his language.

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:53:56 +0000

It’s a shame Jay Leno’s last show was Friday. This would have made the Monday “headlines” segment for sure!

By: sam the sham

sam the sham — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:08:34 +0000

ahhhhhhh, the Idaho Statesman…. when was it a good paper? Back in the days when there was both the morning edition and the evening? I don’t know as I was too young to read it, but I do remember that it did have the two.
Now…. well, it speaks for itself.