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From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton)
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Subject: Re: The game's afoot! (really proofreading)
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Date: Wed, 27-Feb-85 01:11:18 EST
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We tried this (have people proof them) for radio scripts. The idea was
to get out anything vaguely slanderous and to correct awkward
sentence structure. We noticed several things.

The people we paid did a better job than the people we didn't pay.
The people we started out not paying and later paid did a better job
after we paid them.
Enough slander went out the airways anyway that things were always warm.
Every 3 or 4 months we would get someone who released our shows to
people we didn't want to see them (in particular, the people we were
satirising), seemingly just for the hell of it. And if you think that
``warm'' was bad, you should see what happens when a high ranking MP
gets the not-boulderdised version...
People didn't return scripts on time.
People lost scripts.
People spilt coffee on scripts.
People lent their scripts to other people and then
	a) couldn't remember who
	b) couldn't get in touch with them
	c) got in touch with them and foud that they
		a') had lent it to other people
		b') had disposed of it ....

It is a wonderful idea, but the logistics are real hard -- and most
small publishing companies have such logistic problems anyway...

Still, for all those hassles -- *boy* *was* *it* *fun*....

Laura Creighton
utzoo!laura