No less than Stephen Pinker claiming this is news?
This happened with a fresh-out-of-college designer (god forbid copyeditors had editing skills) in 2015. In Austin. I was there that night.
I was on a different team, but come morning, yeah, we were all mocking her for her lack of a hyphen. At the same time, I was the only designer exempt from running a site’s heds verbatim. Of course something like this was going to happen.
To claim this recently happened with a nonsensical upside-down folio is … I usually reach for “absurd” here, and as I’ve already burned “nonsensical,” I’ll just go with “unhinged.”
Pinker knows better, and I’m slightly inclined to point out the provenance that claims a local paper we neither owned nor designed (already an ethical violation) was responsible for what I saw happen in real time in Austin.
God, I hated those stylesheets, but they’re rather damning when it comes to proving A) this was designed at the hub; and B) you’re claiming local reporting – complete with byline – you didn’t do.
Anyone still confused about why I walked away?
Known Epstein associate Stephen Pinker
Literally the best case for pinker is accessory after the fact to child abuse. But I don’t give any epstein associates the benefit of the doubt at this point. He probably raped children.
Yeah he was one of the orbiting intellectuals I don’t actually think he abused any kids. I heard on a podcast he got “kicked off the island” at some point even for pushing back on Epstein’s eugenicism. But people clearly knew what Epstein was, esp after his conviction. I’m sure for Pinker it was all just part of the job of being a public intellectual and representative of his university, who Epstein was a large contributor.
But this is the guy who has written books about how the world is the best that it has ever been, as a way to cover for the few who get rich off of the suffering of the masses. He’s a middle intellectual who circumstances brought in close proximity to supreme evil, but never pulled his head out of hid own ass to notice
Hah, I remember someone posting this on Facebook back in the day. I thought it was hilarious that the article started with “Eager students”… I bet they were!
It’s worth noting that she was … not exactly a prude, but unaware of entendre. She was just dutifully flowing in the hed from the CMS and had never learned to question display copy, which was exactly what GateHouse was hiring for.
The first time I questioned a hed for a paper I’d not worked at in the past, the assigning ed went to management and said that I had no right to alter their display copy after I’d run it up the flagpole, and management (please sit down here) defended me. It was explained that my hed would run, and in the future, don’t fuck up like this again and drag us into this shit.
Steven Pinker provided expert opinion for Epstein and took a ride on his jet.
We all have to start somewhere…
Oh, my!
always more rewarding than a second hand job
How so? By the second time, they’ve at least learned something. I wasn’t Adonis the first time I found myself in a situation where I had to act like I was more experienced at sex than I was.
A guy I knew who worked for the County paper when I was a student did this on purpose.
“XXXXXX high school wins with Peters out” and the like.
screw pinker for a myriad reasons but i think he just thought it was funny.
Giving or receiving? 🤔
That question works way better when talking about sexual preferences than mundane corporate bullshit.
