Thursday, December 30, 2004
(2:23 PM) | Adam R:
Milwaukee Scene Report
Pity this writer:My first job out of school was copy-editing manuscripts for a scholarly journal. Because we corresponded over email, the writers -- usually curmudgeonly, tenured professors -- never knew it was a 26-year-old woman with messy hair and no doctorate, telling them they needed to write more clearly, and I did my best not to let on.That's the first paragraph in "Thinkspace," a horrible feature in Milwaukee's culture weekly, the Shepherd Express.
It drives me crazy. Aside from the juxtaposition of the author's proud tone, her glaring grammatical error, and the fact that she's writing about copy-editing, I'm irked by the typicalness of this kind of thing in the city's only legitimate weekly newspaper. I hear that the Chicago Reader has changed formats for the worse, but I still long for something with as much credibility. I like Milwaukee exponentially more than Chicago, but I hate Milwaukee's alternative press.
Or maybe I'm all wet.
