Yesterday I was introduced to a new reporter at The Sun and described as the editor in charge of the copy desk.
"Oh," he said, "you're the one who will kill my darlings."
I said, "I prefer to think of it as euthanasia."
A squib
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Alex McCrae at 3:19 PM August 22, 2012
Prof. McI.,
Respectfully, would your fatalistic approach to copy editing at the paragraph factory, i.e., your use of the term "euthanasia", make you the virtual doppelganger-in-print of "Dr. Death" Kervorkian?*
Further, you're not hinting that perchance The Sun is merely hangin' in there on life supports? Just askin'.
*I apologize to any reader who may find offensive, or indelicate, my attempt to extract some levity from the contentious, hardly-a-laughing-matter issue of euthanasia.
But the good professor kind of started it, no?
Jonathon Owen at 2:17 PM August 22, 2012
Nice.
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