Editors Prints

The Best of Times/The Worst of Times

"It's good....but I know these people...they're gonna want specifics!"

North American Newspaper Industry.

"Why can't newspapers run more good-news stories?"

Campaign for Plain English

Where does the news come from? And where does fake news come from?

'We've had a lot of post on the legalization of cannabis.'

Euripides: 'If we could be twice young and twice old, we could correct all our mistakes.'

"Now over to our healthcare correspondent."

"I like it, but let's replace the 'evolved from apes' bit with something more plausible - like a talking snake."

Learn to Be a Critic In The Privacy Of Your Own Home With The Apex Correspondence School Of Criticism!

Weapens of Mass Instruction

"We're being accused of talking down the economy...I want the idea looked at on pages 1,3,6 and 7 with a colour spread in the supplement."

"Call me, Ishmael."

War & Peace as it was and written and as it would have been written if Tolstoy had invested in a good word processor.

No news is good news.

"I enjoy cooking my pets and my family."

It's Claus Not Clause

'Why, you scoundrel!'

'I gained about two hours a day. I gave up the New York Times.'

'He's been very lucky - itstarted off as a suicide note!'

"I'm upset because there's no cartoon in your newspaper that I'm upset about and that I could cancel the subscription for! That's why I cancel my subscription!"

Diner. Special: Seizure Salad. It's probably a type, but I'm not going to risk it.

"What if the dish and the spoon run away together?" "Not bad, Doug, not bad at all." "And a crockpot tries to lure the dish away with cash and loads of jewels!" "Come on, Rita! That's been done to death. Too derivative."

What's Black & White & Red All Over

If Watergate Happened Now the Press Would Be Too Busy Reporting on Tweets

Print Suicide

News for Sale

It Could Never Happen Here

Censorship | Not Censorship

Charles Darwin Visits a Publisher. "Past performance is not a Guarantee of Future Results" --- It's a nice book, Mister Darwin, but the title is too long.

'The Orange Prize for Literature goes to...'

Subway. This headline says "New Home Construction Falls." That's ambiguous. It's either economic data or a report about builders doing shoddy work.

Unpublished Sequels. Book Co. A guide to following paper plants and animals, Mr. Darwin? What's the title? "The Origami of the Species."

Online articles are fine, but I miss being annoyed by the fragrance sample cards in print magazines.