Business Editor Gifts

'We've got to stop him watching Robert Peston.'

'Here's our business editor to talk s**t to us for five minutes'

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

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

Copycats

"After years of cartoon rejections, Bill stooped to trying a little shameless product placement."

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."

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

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

Thru versus Through Traffic

"Do you see yourself becoming a movie in five years?"

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

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

First Novels.

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

Reading my Critics

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

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

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

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

Someone who knows apostrophes

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

The Style of Elements

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

Gone With the Wind: The Beach Blanket

"Damn - another letter to the editor."

Press Freedom

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