Media Editing Gifts

Media watchdog.

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

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

Campaign for Plain English

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

A Copy Editor and His Dog

Punctuation Police

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

"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."

"I remember when the death of the hero meant the end of the sequels. Now it marks the beginning of the prequels."

"Now we move over to the sports desk."

Personnel - "This letter of recommendation is full of misspellings!"

"Baxter...about this report...your punctuation, spelling and grammar are perfect. No one can understand it!"

The Modern Novel.

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

With the popularity of spell-checkers, many people are turning to the new speech-checkers.

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

"I just edited your Wikipedia entry." "Big whoop." "What a coincidence, that's what scientists have classified you as: Bigwhoop." "...The much grumpier, much louder, and much, much older second cousin of Bigfoot." "You lousy son of a..." "Wait... thank you. That's very flattering."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

"No—You're thinking dog years—Editor years are twice as many."

Your resume begins Once Upon A Time...I like that!

"You haven't enjoyed the Yule log till you've enjoyed it in high def."

DVD extras - the making of the boxed set.

"Which part are you reading for?"

'I love this street...it's so real man...'

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

"Confounded spell checker... never catches anything."

"And the award for the best use of AI in a movie goes to..."

Ironing Punctuation

"Forget the harps, we can spend Eternity in there."

"We're making a video of us watching TV so we can watch ourselves watching TV...later."

One of the failed candidates for the copyrighters job wants to know 'wat was rong with his applicashun'.

'The grammar's awful and the spelling's atrocious - otherwise it's an impressive CV.'