Guy Fawkes' blog (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
As sent to Times sub-editors: From : Giles Coren Chaps, I am mightily pissed off. I have addressed this to Owen, Amanda and Ben because I don't know who i am supposed to be pissed off with (i'm assuming owen, but i filed to amanda and ben so it's only fair), and also to Tony, who wasn't here - if he had been I'm guessing it wouldn't have happened. I don't really like people tinkering with my copy for...
ReadySteadyBlog (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
For anyone who has ever been crassly sub-edited, Giles Coren's very angry and wonderfully pedantic letter to the Times' subs is a cathartic must-read (via the snowblog ).
Iain Dale's Diary (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Guido has the text of a wonderful ranty email sent by Times columnist Giles Coren to his sub editors HERE . And all because they deleted the word 'a' from the final sentence of his erudite column. Just as well these sort of things never happen at the Telegraph...
Diary of a wordsmith (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Restaurant critic Giles Coren is the target of much amusement in the hackosphere today. He had the temerity to fire off an abusive email to the subs desk at The Times because one of them cut a one-letter word from one of his reviews. Giles, Giles, did no one ever tell you that having a go at the subs desk is akin to a waiter pissing in your soup after you told them it was too cold? Most sub-editors...
Anorak News (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
GUIDO has spotted this delightful note from Times “how-did-he-get-the-job?” columnist Giles Coren. As sent to Times sub-editors: From : Giles Coren Chaps, I am mightily pissed off. I have addressed this to Owen, Amanda and Ben because I don’t know who i am supposed to be pissed off with (i’m assuming owen, but i filed to amanda and [...]
Mike Power's 'Not A Blog' (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs I don't have much time for Coren but I have some sympathy for him over this piece of cack-handed sub-editing.
FreakyTrigger (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Giles Coren, the UK’s Most Important Restaurant Critic, using a thousand words (some of them rude) to hurl his toys right in the faces of Times subs for their ruthless and thoughtless butchering of his precious, precious copy. WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF THE UNSTRESSED SYLLABLES.
Best of Both Worlds (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
From Guido Fawkes : how a Times (UK) review of Café Boheme in Soho led to an enraged e-mail from the reviewer to his sub-editors ... ... fu**ing stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco ...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
In case you're feeling glum today about the way your copy looks in whatever publication you write for, take heart: Everyone in this business, apparently, feels your pain. To prove it, here's a little rant Giles Coren apparently sent his editors over the deletion of the word "a" in his story. That's right. "A." New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
And Another Thing (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
All hacks feel a bit injured when the subs have changed their copy, whether in a wholesale or a minute fashion, but Giles Coren's latest rant at "The Times" subs won't be getting much sympathy from me. This is not just because it goes in for the kind of abuse that will probably have disturbed the sleep and domestic contentment of some of the people to whom it's addressed. It's always difficult to know...
OFFMESSAGE (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
I like Giles Coren. This rant at the Times sub editors who removed a single ‘a’ from one of his pieces only makes me like him more. A brief snippet to whet your appetite… I only wrote that sodding paragraph to make that joke. And you’ve fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring [...]
Hacking Cough (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
In the case of Giles Coren's purple-tinged prose, the Times subs were right anyway. He complains that by interfering with the onanistic euphuism of his final paragraph, the subs ruined the money shot. Removing an indefinite article led to a...
Dispatches from Zembla (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
RSB points to this hilariously pedantic letter that one of the reviewers of The Times sent to the subeditors who had the effrontery of removing an indefinite article in one of his sentences in the review. I am guessing it was some kind of a restaurant review!
