Broadcast Editor Pillows

"Now we move over to the sports desk."

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

"For the best picture not having won anything thereby being eliminated from this category..."

Copycats

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

Squeezing the Free Press.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

"I caution everyone to avoid taking the first field reporter job that comes along."

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!

Punctuation Police

Men looking at black screen, "I call it film noir"

"Bad dog! I've told you to always proofread."

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Royal Mail boss to become ITV boss.

Someone who knows apostrophes

"And now here's Cathie with the hypothetical portion of the news."

"The economy always seems to be recovering, but it never recovers."

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Press Freedom

"Your usually vicious sarcasm is weak. Go pump some irony."

"O.K., O.K., people - we're not workshopping these, they're already set in stone."

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

'Roget it's fantastic, superb, extraordinary...where on earth did you get the idea?'