Caption Error
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To the copy editor who changed a correct name in my caption to an incorrect one in today's paper... Please don't assume I don't know what I'm talking about. If you perceive there to be a problem in a caption, I would prefer that you call me, instead of the writer, for I too am a journalist. It may be hard to believe, but most photojournalists take careful measures to ensure accuracy in what they photograph, as well as what they write. It's neither your name, nor the writer's under the photograph, it's mine, and I take that very seriously. And I'm incredibly pissed at you for making me look bad today. Now would you mind calling the 8-year-old who's name you got wrong and apologize.
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To the copy editor who changed a correct name in my caption to an incorrect one in today's paper... Please don't assume I don't know what I'm talking about. If you perceive there to be a problem in a caption, I would prefer that you call me, instead of the writer, for I too am a journalist. It may be hard to believe, but most photojournalists take careful measures to ensure accuracy in what they photograph, as well as what they write. It's neither your name, nor the writer's under the photograph, it's mine, and I take that very seriously. And I'm incredibly pissed at you for making me look bad today. Now would you mind calling the 8-year-old who's name you got wrong and apologize.
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posted by m at
1:04 PM
3 Comments:
man... i get so irate over the same thing here in Roanoke. they butcher my captions, even remove quotes and replace them with ones that the writer gathered. keep fightin!
I need to copy and paste this to the nimrod who this week changed a 15 into a 14 in a story I worked on.
I had it right, loser.
So true. So true. I can't tell you the number of times that I've been right and the reporter has been wrong.
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