“Buffett has defended newspapers. He has said that even though they face competition from the Internet, they will have a decent future if they continue delivering information that can’t be found elsewhere and stop offering news free online.”
uber-investor Warren Buffett, referred to in a story about his purchase of the Media General chain of newspaper, sans The Tampa Tribune. (emphasis on “stop offering news online free”)
“The hottest media item this week is the AP Stylebook’s surrender to the colloquial sense of “hopefully.” Cleverly, Clyde Haberman uses a sentence adverb to begin every paragraph of his story about the change, demonstrating that the prohibition was bunk in the first place, even if pouncing on such “errors” kept many fine copy editors employed (and, by extension, manufacturers of cardigans in business).”
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/171092/hopefully-this-is-the-last-well-write-about-hopefully/
“My students are, not illegitimately, making a grammatical transformation as well: turning the conjunctions into what are called “sentence adverbs” — words like “Presumably,” “However” and, yes, “Hopefully” that are followed by commas when they start sentences. Punctuation rules may and probably will change accordingly. But they haven’t yet, and I tell my students to lose the comma.”
Ben Yagoda, writing in The New York Times
“Not Your Average Prom Portraits” — from NPR’s The Picture Show series
The Last Trawlers
Great narrative about a place I spent some time in during my early college days, Darien, GA
“You need a dirty mind to be a copy editor” - Charles Apple
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