Government Redactor Pillows

"It's perfect! You're a government redactor, and I'm a broadcast network word bleeper."

"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

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

"You're going to have to submit to peer review eventually, Bradshaw!"

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

First Novels.

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

This is Lenny the leopard with the on-the-spot news.

"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."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

Reading my Critics

Punctuation Police

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

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

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."

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

'The Questioner'

Freind: 'Misspelled, anything helps.'

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

Press Freedom