RE: How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper project

Subject: RE: How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper project
From: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:41:51 -0400

I see a lot of newspaper errors that even Microsoft Word would catch.
(Both of Peter's sentences below are flagged by Word's grammar checker.)
Of course, even the best software isn't as good as a good copy editor,
but the software they're using isn't even as good as Word.


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From: Peter Neilson
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper
project

Absolutely. "Spell-checked butt not proof red."

A good copy editor will also a sentence that is missing its verb or has
things like this etc.




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References:
How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper project: From: Stuart Burnfield
RE: How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper project: From: Lynne Wright
Re: How to Build a Newsroom Time Machine: the All on Paper project: From: Peter Neilson

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