"This week a furious and foul-mouthed email from the Times' restaurant critic Giles Coren to the paper's subeditors went viral." - The Guardian
This is my favourite bit:
"I wrote: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for a nosh."
It appeared as: "I can't think of a nicer place to sit this spring over a glass of rosé and watch the boys and girls in the street outside smiling gaily to each other, and wondering where to go for nosh."
There is no length issue. This is someone thinking, "I'll just remove this indefinite article because Coren is an illiterate cunt and i know best."
Well, you fucking don't. This was shit, shit subediting..." and so on.
7 comments:
"All the best,
Giles."
:D
Subbing is a hard, hard job. Speaking as someone who has had mistakes inserted into copy once or twice, I'd say there's no point in getting precious about it. Human error happens. (Human errors happen? Humanist it is to error? Call the sub!) Also, I wasn't crazy about his racist Irish comment.
I'm a sub editor in my dayjob (writer by night) and this is fucking hilarious. What a legend! If only the journos in my office got as fired up about their work as he does. I'm going to make sure every piece i sub from now on finishes on an unstressed syllable hahaha...or is it the other way around? erk.
He's sorta right. But it doens't change the fact that he's a pompous cock. Poor diddums having his shit dick gag ruined.
I can see his point and think his rant is funny, BUT the racism pisses me right off..
It's hardly racist...
HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHA I fucking love this Una. Giles Coren was actually one of my very fave restaurant reviewers. He sort of still is. As a badly bred Kells thing, I would probably get annoyed by minor sub-editing problems. Let us all proclaim a prayer to god that we are not olllie cole cos then ghostbusters 1 is like the teletubbies :)
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