Even when everybody already knows it, it is dismal to admit it. The old-fashioned-way of doing journalism is becoming a dying craft. If newspaper copy editors vanish from the earth, no one is going to notice. Y que todos pongas sus barbas a remojar.

In a Changing World of News, an Elegy for Copy Editors

From the NY Times

By LAWRENCE DOWNES
Published: June 16, 2008

I went to the Newseum, a shiny new building in Washington that news companies and foundations have erected as a shrine to their industry. Since it’s my industry, too, I thought a museum, where sacred relics and texts have been placed safely in the equivalent of a big glass jar, might make me hopeful about the future.

“Where’s the section on copy editing?” I asked the guy at the entrance.
He wasn’t sure. “Try Internet, TV and Radio, on the third floor.”
“For copy editing? Newspaper copy editing?”
He checked with a colleague. “News History, on five,” she said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/16/opinion/16mon4.html?em&ex=1213761600&en=eab66656fe5d3ec4&ei=5087%0A