Good Editing Is Hard To Find

Swiped from Tim Blair's site:

JOURNALIST GILES COREN recently wrote a book review for the Times of London in which he dismissed a certain work as a literary stunt. Part of his review ran as follows:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Very clever. All 26 letters of the alphabet in a 35-letter sentence.

But a subeditor changed the "the" to an "a". Read Coren's calm, measured response to the alteration and subsequent error here.

It's the funniest thing I've read in weeks.

 

Posted by Captain Mojo at August 20, 2002 03:30 PM | TrackBack