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Sunday, March 06, 2011

The death of proofreading?

By Jack Brummet
Social Mores Editor

Proofreading and stringent copy-editing may not be dead, but they seem to be wheezing, and almost ready for life support. While it hasn't happened in The New York Times yet, I suspect it will one day. Even now, it's not uncommon to find a typo/transposition on the front page. And sometimes incomplete edits, page breaks where words are missing, etc. I wonder if the person responsible for this headline kept their job?

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