editing is not the same as proofreading
recalled a great conversation with Perry White about being sure things are correct before sending them out. he said:
"spell checking is not the same as proofreading. proofreading is not the same as thinking"
here's what caused the memory:
in this article in the nytimes I found these editor/author's notes:
**speculation about its origins — Saddam era? does it say anything about the the insurgents’ communications structure that they had cleared out before raided? comment on that? In an initial statement, the military did not say exactly when the bunkers were discovered, but that the find came as part of “ongoing operations” being conducted in Anbar Province in the last three days. During those operations, troops with the Second Marine Division located about 50 weapons and ammunition caches. Seven were discovered in the immediate area of the rock quarry, Capt. Pool said in an e-mail interview.
kinda interesting. reminds me of the rather long but interesting documentary on the editorial practices of the nytimes featuring a lot of noam chomp-chomp-chomsky (insert max headroom twitch). that one was mostly focused on east timor. what was it called again???
before I could even get to imdb it came to me: manufacturing consent. the subtitle was something along the line of noam chomsky's war on the media or somesuch.
I was going to link to the imdb site but the "review" of the film is just a personal political story by someone raised by "poor, intellectual musicians" it made me want to hurl.
"spell checking is not the same as proofreading. proofreading is not the same as thinking"
here's what caused the memory:
in this article in the nytimes I found these editor/author's notes:
**speculation about its origins — Saddam era? does it say anything about the the insurgents’ communications structure that they had cleared out before raided? comment on that? In an initial statement, the military did not say exactly when the bunkers were discovered, but that the find came as part of “ongoing operations” being conducted in Anbar Province in the last three days. During those operations, troops with the Second Marine Division located about 50 weapons and ammunition caches. Seven were discovered in the immediate area of the rock quarry, Capt. Pool said in an e-mail interview.
kinda interesting. reminds me of the rather long but interesting documentary on the editorial practices of the nytimes featuring a lot of noam chomp-chomp-chomsky (insert max headroom twitch). that one was mostly focused on east timor. what was it called again???
before I could even get to imdb it came to me: manufacturing consent. the subtitle was something along the line of noam chomsky's war on the media or somesuch.
I was going to link to the imdb site but the "review" of the film is just a personal political story by someone raised by "poor, intellectual musicians" it made me want to hurl.
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