http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/11/13/scripps-scraps-jobs-not-spelling-bee/ Where media and technology meet Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/11/13/scripps-scraps-jobs-not-spelling-bee/comment-page-1/#comment-353642 Robert MacMillan Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:30:16 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=12886#comment-353642 Assuming ur tongue is somewhere in the cheek region? :) Assuming ur tongue is somewhere in the cheek region?

]]> http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/11/13/scripps-scraps-jobs-not-spelling-bee/comment-page-1/#comment-353641 edward Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:13:54 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/?p=12886#comment-353641 Interesting that most Spelling Bee graduates I know never got into the news business, so I don't agree with your premise that Scripps is doing this to create new generations of copy editors. Consider Ben Bernanke, a one-time winner on the state level, who flubbed his word in the national bee. Interesting that most Spelling Bee graduates I know never got into the news business, so I don’t agree with your premise that Scripps is doing this to create new generations of copy editors. Consider Ben Bernanke, a one-time winner on the state level, who flubbed his word in the national bee.

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