Copy Editor's Lament (The Layoff Song)

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I wrote "Copy Editor's Lament (The Layoff Song)" to comment on the newpaper industry's woes, to celebrate copy editors and to recognize that the entire media world is in flux. To learn more about the song and its origins, you can read this excellent Poynter article: http://tinyurl.com/agdjrt . The video was shot by photojournalist Elie Gardner and created by an all-volunteer cast made up mostly of journalists. Thanks to infuz.com for providing the location.

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Music

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• copy editor's lament
• layoff song
• christopher ave
• elie gardner
• newspaper industry
• power pop
• media
• multimedia

[pinkbadger9]

Chris, you rock!!! And such talented faces in this video...

[vdmsimon]

Great. Thanks for that. Good Stuff.

[Maamiyn]

Where are my apostrophes and quotation marks?

[Maamiyn]

The most humorous thing about the video is that SUPORT was typed into the Google search field rather than SUPPORT. Maybe diminishing professional skill is part of the reason for copyeditors having been laid off en masse. However, Im one of those recently axed and under-appreciated copyeditors, so I wont press the point much further than to point out the unintended humor.

[jejuneraccoon]

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[songtruth]

LOL! I'm a copy editor.

[stege1]

As a sports editor I can relate to a lot of this. Sadly at my paper there are no real copy editors left to show this video.

[mymusicdiscovery]

Haha good stuff. But get a job on the net. Newspapers suck--they smell, and are read by older people only, now!!!!

[morningsidemay]

Copy editors have always been my heroes. Thanks for the video and snappy song.