Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Chicagoland / Media What Every Journalist Secretly Wants to Do to Corporate Memos
Posted by Whet Moser on Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 3:42 PM
A Toronto Star editor takes a hatchet to a pink-slip memo from former Sun-Times publisher John Cruickshank, who is a former reporter and editor, and should really write better than this ("leveraging these core capabilities across new and emerging platforms" - seriously?).
On the other hand, the anonymous editor gets points off for unsplitting an infinitive.
NB: I've always wondered why former editors and writers churn out corporate oatmeal that, in a previous life, I can't imagine them tolerating. I suspect it's a coping mechanism.
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The other day I (carpetbagging corporate media toadie) used the phrase, "unified device/platform-agnostic mobile distribution framework," and kind of wanted to take a hatchet to myself.
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