You Don't Say

John McIntyre, whom James Wolcott called "the Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copy editing," writes on language, editing, journalism, and random topics. Identifying his errors relieves him of the burden of omniscience. Write to jemcintyre@gmail.com, befriend at Facebook, or follow at Twitter: @johnemcintyre. His original "You Don't Say" blog at The Baltimore Sun ran from 2005 to 2021, and posts on it can sometimes be found at baltimoresun.com through Google searches.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

The joys of failure

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It’s a pity that discussion in comments of the substance of my interview with On the Media has been sidetracked by Robert Knilands, who bar...
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WTF

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Jesse Sheidlower, the formidable lexicographer and Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary , is bringing out a new edition, the thi...
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

After the storm

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Despite the distresses of the day, I have not lost hope that journalism will return to the importance of editing. Much of my attention and e...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Have they no decency?

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My former colleague Claire Abt tells me that there were so many things wrong with this that she had to share it: New Jim Beam Red Stag black...
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The quality of quality is strained

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The remark from my interview with On The Media most frequently quoted, by Romenesko’s media news site at Poynter and others, is that “one of...
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Monday, July 27, 2009

Lazy day

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Driving more than a thousand miles over the weekend proved to be a little more taxing than I had expected, and a necessary trip this morning...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Forty years afterward

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Thunderstorms could not dampen the enthusiasm this weekend of members of the Fleming County High School Class of 1969 at their reunion parti...
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Thursday, July 23, 2009

One more thing

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Before I venture west to examine the marks of time on my classmates from 1969, a reminder: I was mistaken about the broadcast of my intervie...
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Off to the Dark and Bloody

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Even the unemployed need to take a little time off. A week ago a letter arrived announcing that fellow graduates of the Class of 1969 at Fle...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Deferring to the godly

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In yesterday’s post on regrettable news leads , I said that one reason not to affect bogus King James English was to avoid giving offense to...
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