Media Editing Mugs

Media watchdog.

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

Campaign for Plain English

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

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

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

"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."

"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!"

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

"Various entrances to the gates of Hell."

"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."

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

"Still suffering from writer's block?"

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

"What your memoir really needs is an addiction."

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."

"Which part are you reading for?"

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

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

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

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

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

Ironing Punctuation

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

DVD extras - the making of the boxed set.

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.'

Editor.