Comments on: What Are These People Thinking? http://www.capecentralhigh.com/stuff-that-doesnt-fit-anywhere-else/what-are-these-people-thinking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-are-these-people-thinking Coming of Age in Cape Girardeau Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:36:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Preston "Pep" Foster http://www.capecentralhigh.com/stuff-that-doesnt-fit-anywhere-else/what-are-these-people-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-400 Preston "Pep" Foster Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:34:52 +0000 http://www.capecentralhigh.com/?p=805#comment-400 Margi & BIll are "preaching to the choir." Here is a "guideline" form for new patients from a state-of-the-art medical clinic, dated 2010. (sic) "By signing below, I agree that I have been explained and fully understand the above statement." Does anybody else remember John Astin on Night Court intoning the line, "But I feel MUCH better now!" ? Pep Margi & BIll are “preaching to the choir.”
Here is a “guideline” form for new patients from a state-of-the-art medical clinic, dated 2010.
(sic) “By signing below, I agree that I have been explained and fully understand the above statement.”
Does anybody else remember John Astin on Night Court intoning the line, “But I feel MUCH better now!” ?
Pep

]]> By: Bill East http://www.capecentralhigh.com/stuff-that-doesnt-fit-anywhere-else/what-are-these-people-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-331 Bill East Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:25:30 +0000 http://www.capecentralhigh.com/?p=805#comment-331 WARNING: Old Editor's Rant! The sad state of today's newspaper's was illustrated in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A headline read "The Art of Regifting". Regifting???? Even windows spell checker doesn't recognize this! A staff writer on a trade magazine I once edited couldn't understand why I objected to describing a singer as "the most awarded women in country music". To whom was she awarded and why?? Another writer couldn't understand why I removed "self-made octogenarian". One young journalism grad told me it didn't matter if there were punctuation, spelling and grammatocal errors. What he wrote was more important than how he wrote it! That's why I am no longer in the business. I value my sanity too much. End of Rant! WARNING: Old Editor’s Rant!

The sad state of today’s newspaper’s was illustrated in today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A headline read “The Art of Regifting”. Regifting???? Even windows spell checker doesn’t recognize this!

A staff writer on a trade magazine I once edited couldn’t understand why I objected to describing a singer as “the most awarded women in country music”. To whom was she awarded and why??

Another writer couldn’t understand why I removed “self-made octogenarian”.

One young journalism grad told me it didn’t matter if there were punctuation, spelling and grammatocal errors. What he wrote was more important than how he wrote it!

That’s why I am no longer in the business. I value my sanity too much.

End of Rant!

]]> By: Margi Whitright http://www.capecentralhigh.com/stuff-that-doesnt-fit-anywhere-else/what-are-these-people-thinking/comment-page-1/#comment-329 Margi Whitright Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:40:41 +0000 http://www.capecentralhigh.com/?p=805#comment-329 You are so right about sensitive ads. Jerry and I love to make fun of the unfortunate juxtaposition of stories and pictures or ads that we find in the newspaper. Even when I worked for a county-wide free distribution advertising paper, the owners would go through every page of the paste-ups to make sure that the ads for like businesses were NOT placed on the same page or back to back. The times of careful proofing and printing are past, I'm afraid. You are so right about sensitive ads. Jerry and I love to make fun of the unfortunate juxtaposition of stories and pictures or ads that we find in the newspaper. Even when I worked for a county-wide free distribution advertising paper, the owners would go through every page of the paste-ups to make sure that the ads for like businesses were NOT placed on the same page or back to back. The times of careful proofing and printing are past, I’m afraid.

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