the ugly earring

ug‧ly [uhg-lee] offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance

the end of something

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“Copy editors are being bought out or forced out; they are dying and not being replaced.”

If newspaper copy editors vanish from the earth, no one is going to notice.”

a great New York Times piece on the death of a copy editor, my first real job out of college; which happened after they announced the death of the dark room.

 

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  1. I will notice if copy editors vanish from the earth. I hope they put them in a nursing home with wifi access and allow us bloggers to cyber call on them, “Tuesdays with Morrie” style to learn their secrets.
    xx

    hammie

    June 19, 2008 at 7:04 am


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