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blogs tend to be nearly completely unconcerned with the kinds of typos and grammatical errors that copy editors are paid to seek out and fix still this is no reason to get sentimental about the lowly copy editor if he is unacknowledged within the newsroom and a relic online it is because we as readers have evolved we no longer sweat the small stuff of proper hyphenation and correct usage of semi colons it s the ideas and opinions that we re after if a few words here and there are misspelled so what we re smart enough to know it hardly matters to the quality of the story or argument as i said this could be simply a piece of satire written with tongue so far in cheek as to not be visible because it turns out that yoni goldstein m a in english literature 2003 at york university former editorial board member of the national post former assistant editor of the canadian magazine maclean s and former editor of something called the book for men and current blogger for the huffington post canada also writes pieces such as this reaction to prime minister stephen harper s davos announcement of coming changes to old age security was predictable poor old people was the general tenor one day they re heading jauntily toward retirement at 65 but now because of our emotionless jerk of a prime minister they ll have to work an extra two years well boo hoo am i the only one unmoved by the won t someone think about the old people cries because it seems to me that working an extra two years is the least old people and soon to be old baby boomers can do for the rest of us oldies have already been working for 40 years they re used to the routine and it s my understanding that old people love sticking to routines that they turn into shriveled head cases when their daily schedules don t follow predictable patterns so staying at work combined with regular consumption of prunes is actually the healthiest option for them we know that we know more than you we ve grown up in a world where all knowledge is available at the click of a mouse the collective wisdom of the internet trumps your meandering stories of personal hardships we re the wise ones not you so old people it s time to get up off the couch and make yourselves useful no more free rides here so at this point i might be saying yoni what you would truly need a copy editor to tell you is i didn t know jonathan swift but you re not jonathan swift at some point you ve got to put a phrase in a wink wink that says hey folks i m writing this as satire simply being over the top no longer counts because people who really believe what you re poking fun at have been there before you and have said it already part of the collective wisdom of the internet is that it is impossible to be over the top someone will try to surpass you just to show he or she can and despite the old saw words can harm when the internet era was just catching fire mickey kaus one of the earliest big name political bloggers wrote enthusiastically about the layoff of copy editors in what by today s terms would be small numbers at the los angeles times i can t find it in a search of kausfiles it was years ago kaus point was that some reporter he knew at the times could write as he saw it flawless copy on a wristwatch keypad and that all that copy editors did was mangle this 100 percent wordsmithing with their useless questions and arcane rules it was clear that kaus had had his subjunctive modes tied up in a knot about this for some time he was not being satirical in this he reminded me of a former editor at a newspaper far far way and his tale to me of why he had abolished the local copy desk i m a smart guy i was a reporter for 20 years copy editors asked me a lot of dumb questions savvy well i savvied and praised the stars i was leaving he may have been a smart guy though i must humbly admit it was not apparent to me he may have written flawless copy he may have had copy editors who were obsessed with small points or arbitrary rules they couldn t back up my experience in 35 years in newspapers is that most reporters do not write flawless copy and about two thirds of them know that those who do write nearly flawlessly for the most part appreciate the backstop those who do not and know it appreciate that someone is there to make their work better or at least stop it from being misinterpreted those who do not appreciate it tend to see writing as a form of masturbation i m giving myself pleasure and man it feels good so either yoni goldstein thought he was aiding the cause of copy editing but did so too subtly that it was too easy to believe him in a world where business side cost cutters egomaniacal writers editors in chief obsessed with feet on the street are constantly looking for justification to get rid of all those picky delaying self righteous copy editors who don t understand today s world because if you spell the prime minister s name steven harbor and follow it with he re one superdooper dickhed you ll get more web hits than a reasoned piece of political commentary will draw fuckin a the prime minister s a dickhead pass me another molson canadian humor can be more savagely cutting than american or perhaps yoni really does spend his days doing hand jobs perhaps he will enlighten us a contribution to support the american copy editors society which does have canadian members would be a nice way to show it posted by davisull at 10 27 am 0 comments share this using shareomatic thursday february 9 2012 department store building of the wyoming valley enough philosophizing about newspapers time to return to looking at buildings that once housed the department stores that were a city s pride wilkes barre pa the heart of the valley that warms the nation in the days of anthracite heating was a great city for department stores there were five locally owned major stores in the mid 1950s on one block of south main street and around the diamond as public square is sometimes called of those two buildings remain one of which amazingly is still a downtown department store first the fallen bergman s department store was founded during world war i by justin bergman i have not been able to discover whether he was related to the bergman who owned the bon ton store in altoona one of myriad bon tons not related to the york pa based and still existing bon ton chain while bergman s remodeled in 1950 and held an open house by 1958 it was gone from downtown having moved to the area s first major shopping center the narrows in edwardsville which drew from all the towns in the area often this sort of thing followed a fire in those days but i can t see any reference to one the bergman family including mike bergman jr and relatives seymour and john dimond and charles pfifferling ran the store until the hurricane agnes floods that so devastated the city also a victim of agnes was the lazarus department store 57 s main st which had nothing to do with the larger lazarus chain in ohio the store was founded as lazarus bros by asher and henry lazarus in the early 1890s after asher lazarus ended his partnership with solomon langfeld who with his own brother feist operated a department store in wilkes barre for a number of years in the world war i era the store was sold and reorganized as the wilkes barre dry goods co which became part of the giant claflin bankruptcy that spawned two chains it ended up in the hands of the milliken family s mercantile stores while mercantile which had a strong commitment to its downtown stores kept its chain going until 1998 the flood damage was too severe for lazarus to reopen lazarus had also had a branch in pittston then there was the isaac long store at 17 public square one of two major stores founded by longs in wilkes barre isaac long s descendants harry and julius stern ran the store until 1955 when it was sold to the cleland simpson co of scranton operator of the globe store and for a time owned by john wanamaker it also was a victim of the flood the l arge building in the photo in the upper corner of the diamond is the other long store which was begun by jonas long and then continued as jonas long s sons the store s original address was on market street which until the 1890s was as prominent a shopping street as main street jonas long s sons charles louis bernhard arthur and edward took over the store and expanded into scranton that may have been too much because the scranton store was sold to isaac oppenheim and became the scranton dry william macwilliam an executive of fowler dick walker then took over the wilkes barre store and for a brief time it was macwilliam s which also had a branch in nanticoke in the late 1920s allied stores purchased it and made it a pomeroy s unit thus this is one of the three surviving former downtown pomeroy s stores with the others in pottsville and easton harry adamy a spokesman for pennsylvania merchants in fighting the sales tax in the 1930s was later pulled away from lazarus to manage pomeroy s a cross chain switch that was very rare people generally moved from store to store within one company pomeroy s opened a suburban branch on route 6 in the 1960s but the great macyization happened at the wyoming valley mall where what is now a macy s was previously a kaufmann s pittsburgh and a hess s allentown and had been opened as a zollinger s also allentown whew finally and still operating at the bottom left of the photo with the greenish front is the aforementioned fowler dick and walker the boston store now a boscov s branch george fowler alexander dick and gilbert walker created the partnership in wilkes barre in 1879 after having worked together in meriden conn in 1881 fowler and walker moved to binghamton n y to open a second store walker later opened a third in evansville ind and the men remained partners even though they were spread across the country fd w had other branches across pennsylvania new york and indiana at various times in wilkes barre descendants of alexander dick took prominent roles among them malcolm burnside and millard demun in the 1960s the chairman of the store was named alexander dick fd w was clearly a scots store although not part of the great scottish american department store chain syndicate trading my colleague jim remsen who grew up near scranton remembers radio ads mentioning fowler dick walker in binghamton however the store was called fowler s perhaps because that was where the fowler heirs mostly lived fd w was sold to al boscov in 1980 a couple of the links here are to a fine local history photo site called wyoming valley photos posted by someone i can only see identified as james posted by davisull at 10 01 am 6 comments share this using shareomatic thursday february 2 2012 onward part three in the early days of ttpb it tried to make the point that print offered a pipeline into readers homes and that the newspaper business could forget the concept of a pipeline at its peril it is cheered by the endorsement of print by halifax media the new owners of the former nyt regional papers it hopes the new owners in san diego find their way at the same time there are decisions such as that of booth newspapers to cut back home delivery to such an extent as to try to force people to get the news online or at their own inconvenience which as doug page notes in a controversy drawing article in news tech simply changes them from one among 1 400 daily newspapers to one of about 100 million websites these moves say that the newspaper business is no longer just a one size fits all model in which the new york times and the kingman daily miner essentially do the same thing different companies try different strategies time will tell which succeed and the end product is that cities that now have daily newspapers may not have them while other cities will a daily newspaper may be like an olive garden there s one here and one there but not one way over there not every town big enough to have a daily newspaper has a macy s and nowadays not every town big enough to have a macy s has a daily newspaper this seems inevitable though regrettable but then the files of the library of congress are filled with old titles that when they closed left their cities without a daily newspaper here in new jersey union city hoboken dover passaic long branch toms river elizabeth red bank all had local daily newspapers that foundered for one reason or another typically a larger nearby competitor would pick up part of the slack but no one covered the heck out of the town in the same way and local people said sure was nice when we had that elizabeth journal and either read another paper or watched good morning america somehow for most the gap was filled the people in city hall of course varied between exultation we no longer have someone watching our every move and agony we no longer have someone doing a story every day about our every move news is not a necessity the closing of their local food fair or wrigley market did not stop people from going to the grocery newspapers achilles heel has always been their sense of indispensability because for the most part the people who work for them business side or news side find them indispensable and therefore feel wrongly that they need do little to promote their use remember the downbeat renault ads in the 1970s at the end of which george c scott intoned it sells itself sure are a lot of renaults on the roads here most of us believe in what we do and many of us are terrified that we are doing the wrong thing we need to listen to owners who say yes there s a future for print as well as a future for newspapers in digital we also need to look for owners who are willing to support that with marketing with promotion yes with progress editions if they want with intelligent efforts focused on the desires of readers and not the importance of the first amendment the first amendment is vital but it s not going to make me buy a newspaper newspapers are too un hip to do a cadillac style reinvention to the voice of robert plant but they need to avoid how oldsmobile spiraled into the grave by having a choir out of a 1950s soap ad sing this is not your father s oldsmobile because we cannot simply change ourselves into the huffington post and we need to not listen to the people who say there is no future for you unless you do exactly what i say which amazingly enough is exactly what i want to do we need to remind ourselves that a website got it wrong about paterno cbs got it wrong about paterno and yes some newspapers got it wrong about paterno but the ap didn t the new york times didn t my own newspaper didn t most newspapers didn t not in print or online and the reason is that we don t see ourselves as organizations throwing out the baby to have the coolest 21st century bathwater you ve ever seen at the same time we need to remember that hearst s people made things up pulitzer s people made things up there have always been and always will be journalists who mak...