Editors make me mad!
UCC Student Express: At least they spelled this right
Especially ones who don’t use a spell checker.
I was searching the interweb for some of my journalistic endeavours and it turns out several of my articles have been neigh-on sabotaged by bad, inaccurate or even misspelled headlines, such as the one above. Another article, this time in print form, features my own review of a tumultuous season for Cork City F.C. - with the headline insisting that they will overcome “Shelbs” (as any self respecting eircom League hack knows, theres no ‘B’).
It isn’t just me who feels like this, or even just the authors. Copy-editors feel it too.
In case you’re wondering, a copy/sub-editor corrects a the misspellings or rephrases wording inside the actual text of an article - sometimes they aren’t exactly the love of a journo’s life either.
Why do editors get paid for making up an often embarrassing headline? How often have you seen a well written piece discussing the behaviour of children on isolated estates only to be smeared by the headline “Your Child Is Doing Cocaine Off The Crack Of A Hookers Arse”?
Well, you know what I mean. So next time you see a headline akin to “Edioters R Stoopid - by Gavin Golden”, just remember its not the journalist’s fault.
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