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Morning.
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Hey.
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- Want a laugh?
- Sure.
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- The website for Jukt Micronics.
- Oh, good.
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Yeah, you might not think so
when you see what's on it.
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l don't think Mr. Sims
liked our piece that much.
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Yeah. And l found this too,
from my fridge for some reason.
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lan Restil's agent,
Joe Hiert.
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l'd like to pause for a moment.
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You can't go into the world of
journalism without first understanding
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how a piece gets edited
at a place like ''TNR.''
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This is a system that Michael Kelly
brought with him from The New Yorker.
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A three-day torture test.
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lf your article's good,
the process will only make it better.
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lf your article's shaky,
you're in for a long week.
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A story comes in,
and it goes to a senior editor.
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He, or she, edits it
on computer,
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then calls in the writer,
who makes revisions.
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Then the piece goes to a second editor,
and the writer revises it again.
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Then it goes through a fact-check,
where every fact in the piece--
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every date, every title,
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every place or assertion
is checked and verified.
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Then the piece goes to a copy editor,
where it is scrutinized once again.
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Then it goes to lawyers,
who apply their own burdens of proof.
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Marty looks at it too. He's very
concerned with any kind of comment
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the magazine is making.
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Then Production takes it, and lays
it out into column inches and type.
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Then it goes back on paper,
then back to the writer,
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back to the copy editor,
back to editor number one,
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and editor number two, back to
the fact-checker, back to the writer,
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and back to Production again.
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Throughout, those lawyers
are reading and re-reading,
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looking for red flags,
anything that feels uncorroborated.
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Once they're satisfied, the pages
are reprinted and it all happens again.