A little attention for The Old Editor

A little attention for The Old Editor

John McIntyre at You Don't Say

In this week's *City Paper*, Baynard Woods profiles me. This, his opening paragraph, will help you decide whether to read further: "*The Old Editor* is an imposing man. As he walks into Nina’s, a small restaurant across the street from *The Sun*’s* *headquarters, the woman behind the counter says, 'Hello, Mr. McIntyre. It’s been a while' with an air of deference. If his sartorial sense were prose, John Early McIntyre would probably find it too flowery: With a dark suit, a blue-striped bow tie, cuff links in the sleeves of his starched shirt, a wide-brimmed hat, and a cane, he looks... more » http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-little-attention-for-old-editor.html

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Hey, it's your language By John E. McIntyre The Baltimore Sun

Hey, it's your language

Hey, it's your language By John E. McIntyre The Baltimore Sun March 21, 2012

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-hey-its-your-language-20120321,0,3268849.story

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Nothing is more democratic than English. It is what its speakers and writers collectively make of it over time, and that includes you…http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-hey-its-your-language-20120321,0,3268849.story

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In a word: mumpsimus

In a word: mumpsimus

By John E. McIntyreThe Baltimore Sun

11:01 a.m. EDT, March 19, 2012

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a moderately obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar — another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word:


MUMPSIMUS ... http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/language-blog/bal-in-a-word-mumpsimus-20120319,0,4791138.story

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The TSA can't control how you talk

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The TSA can't control how you talk

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2010/11/the_tsa_cant_control_how_you_talk.html

Perhaps you have reflected while passing through airports, as I have many times over the past several years: Here are federal employees with wages and benefits whose job is to move a plastic dishpan from one end of a table to the other.

It is all part of the rich absurdity of contemporary air travel. First, you are fleeced by the airlines, which cannot apparently make a go of their business without nickel-and-diming the customers. Pay for a seat that has about as much space as you would have had in the hold of a ship on the Middle Passage, unless you pay more for some room. Pay for your bag. Pay more for an extra bag. Ryanair considered installing pay toilets on its planes, an idea whose time is surely coming... http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/mcintyre/blog/2010/11/the_tsa_cant_control_how_you_talk.html

John McIntyre, mild-mannered editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work, to sporadic expressions of gratitude, for thirty years. He is The Sun’s night content production manager and former head of its copy desk. He also teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Michigan State and Syracuse, and a moderate prescriptivist, he writes about language, journalism, and arbitrarily chosen topics. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on the posts or write to him atjohn.mcintyre@baltsun.com.

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John McIntyre has left the building

May 7, 2009

Photo credit: Jerry Jackson of The Sun. Courtesy of John McIntyre, “You Don’t Say.” From his post published on Saturday, May 2, 2009, “Many kindnesses.” http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2009/05/many-kindnesses.html

John McIntyre has sealed his predecessor's ashes in an egg of myrrh.

“You Don’t Say” by John E. McIntyre has left the building…

May 7, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

This past weekend, I stumbled upon this photo of John McIntyre leaving the byzantine denizens of Calvert Street, pushing a shopping cart. It was upsetting. However, ever the class act, his post which accompanied the photo was uplifting.

For those who are in temporary withdrawal as a result of the untimely demise of “You Don’t Say,” by John E. McIntyre; let not your heart be heavy or allow your possessives with a gerund grind to a halt.

If you will recall, Mr. McIntyre, the author of the aforementioned feature in “The Sun,” was recently unshackled from the challenges of his employment interfering with his life.

Yes, gentile readers, Mr. McIntyre has been visited upon by the spirit of Zell, who set fire to his “nest of aromatic boughs and spices.”

As with the mythological ancient Egyptian bird, he has “sealed its predecessor's ashes in an egg of myrrh and flew to Heliopolis to deposit them on the altar of the sun god.”

If this has either affected – or effected – you, mosey on over to his new cubicle at “You Don’t Say,” on blogger: http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/.

News of the rebirth of “You Don’t Say” spread quickly among those of us who are, in particular, in constant need of a copy editor (such as me – or is it such as myself?)

Mr. McIntyre confidently wrote in “Turning the page,” on Thursday, April 30, 2009, “I’m back, and I do not intend to go away.”

At that I joined the collective sigh of relief… Please join me in welcoming Mr. McIntyre to the dark side…

And oh, if you should happen to feel the need to correspond with Mr. McIntyre, always use spel chek.

“Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.” — Christina Baldwin

~ Kevin Dayhoff http://www.kevindayhoff.com/

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PS: For all those who have asked me to write more about the Sun Massacre; no thanks. The last time I checked, I still work for the Baltimore Sun Media Group and I would like to continue…

Photo credit: Jerry Jackson of The Sun. Courtesy of John McIntyre, “You Don’t Say.” From his post published on Saturday, May 2, 2009, “Many kindnesses.” http://johnemcintyre.blogspot.com/2009/05/many-kindnesses.html

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