Memo to Publishers

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A Blogger Employment Plan?

“Publishers: With all the grim news of layoffs and staff cuts at the venerable houses of American letters, can we set some ground rules for these hard times? Anyone who abuses the English language on a regular basis should not be paid to put words in print.”

—Timothy Egan, columnist (and paid writer), 2008
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Overhead in the Newsroom

Editor on health care reform: “Do you want us to be like Canada — cold and half-French?”



And Uncle Jay Explains the News for Labor Day Week.