>> My own favourite comic is clearly sub-edited by illiterate, ignorant teenagers. Some stories are so garbled as to be meaningless or anyway incomprehensible. Where do they find these people? In foreign countries it seems.
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>> Daily papers are finalized in a hurry, but that's no excuse.
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Interns.
BUt if you have a decent head sub, he will refuse to let anything across to stone until he and his senior subs give the nod. A place I know has a whole bunch of greybeards who can NIB and blue pencil like you can't believe. 30 lines over? No problem, let me rip the guts out of it, and it'll make sense. 3 minutes.
Very few organisations do that any more.
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