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

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

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

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

"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."

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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

First Novels.

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

Reading my Critics

Punctuation Police

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"

"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

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 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.'

Press Freedom

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