August 21, 2005 @ 8:21 am
Who Edits this Stuff
Another entry for the "Who Edits This Stuff" department. It looks like someone at the Arizona Daily Star is finally responding to the complaints of The Data Port and others about lapses in editing. (Remember "Myself and a photographer were driving…."?)
Buried in today’s want ad section is this:
On-Call
Copy Editors
The Arizona Daily Star is
seeking experienced copy-
editors to work on its night
copy desk on an on-call ba-
sis.
The ad goes on to require two years or more of experience on the copy desk of a daily newspaper and the willingness to work on nights, weekends, and holidays. Well, okay, maybe Tucson has a stash of retired copy editors who would adore part time work, but let me be skeptical.
I guess the Star is trying to do the job on the cheap, but it would seem worthwhile to hire one really fine copy editor full time and make the Star a star for its editing. But then there’d be benefits to pay.
August 21, 2005 @ 10:20 am
Yesterday
A day off yesterday, which was spent with the computers shut down. Slept late, took a couple of naps, and in between worked on The Balcony. One of my fellow cast members told me that Anthony Hopkins never has to "learn" his part. He simple reads it 250 times and then knows it. That would be lovely. I seem to have to begin a month ahead everyone else in the show and really work at it. Sigh.
I discovered a benefit of the extra labor: I finally learned how to read a play. I’ll come back to this in a day or two, because I found it really interesting. Hope you will, too.
August 21, 2005 @ 10:22 am
Spam For Rich People
David Hatfield, the editor of Inside Tucson Business, reports that Tucson’s Newspapers will launch a new advertising magazine in November. Called "Q," the book will be mailed (unsolicited) to homes with an annual income of $75,000 or more. That ‘Q’ stands for quintessential and the mag will be all about "fine shopping and good eating." Incidentally, there will be no regular articles. There will be copy that looks like magazine articles, but they’ll be bought and paid for by advertisers. On television we call such stuff info-mercials. On the web we call this spam.
