For goodness sake, HIRE EXPERIENCED COPY EDITORS

[Drip]

This is wrong on so many fronts.
Newspaper apologizes for 'insensitive' Simone Manuel headline

 

[Ace]

This is wrong on so many fronts.
Newspaper apologizes for 'insensitive' Simone Manuel headline

A really good copy editor would say your post should have read:

"This is wrong on so many fonts."

 

[JohnHammond]

This is wrong on so many fronts.
Newspaper apologizes for 'insensitive' Simone Manuel headline

Readers don't care. If they did, most newspapers would value experience and talent.

 

[Drip]

This is wrong on so many fronts.
Newspaper apologizes for 'insensitive' Simone Manuel headline
A really good copy editor would say your post should have read:

"This is wrong on so many fonts."Ace, a witty copy editor would have written it that way. I just decided to use fronts instead of fonts to be more accurate about the situation.

 

[HanSenSE]

I'll stipulate we need more copy editors; but this one's on the Web editor as well.

 

[TyWebb]

Publishers saw your request and have issued a statement in response:

"Nah."

 

[Bronco77]

Having edited copy in either sports or news since Donald Trump owned a team in the U.S. Football League, I couldn't agree more with the title!

But experienced copy editors cost too much and we're too likely to call BS on the gibberish that spews from newsroom "thought leaders."

I wonder if the person who wrote that web headline ever even worked on an honest-to-goodness copy desk.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I would like to interject here that racially insensitive headlines are not exactly a new thing in the newspaper world, nor are they necessarily a byproduct of corporate cost-cutting.

It was a bad headline. There have been bad headlines as long as there have been headlines.

 

[JPsT]

Readers don't care. If they did, most newspapers would value experience and talent.

If readers don't care, why tweets about the headline have hundreds of replies and RTs?

 

[wicked]

If readers don't care, why tweets about the headline have hundreds of replies and RTs?

I'll bet 99 percent of the people complaining have never paid a dime for the Mercury News.

And I bet a good deal of people paying for the Mercury News didn't give a shirt.

I mean yesterday, we had what's supposed to be a reputable outlet outing, for no good reason, a bunch of Olympians. Just because.

Much of the industry is a shirt show right now.

 

[MisterCreosote]

She's a great African American and an even better black woman.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

I've seen worse headlines approved by experienced copy editors.