That's awful, Tep. I hope the executive managing editor chews up that article.

Jesse, I can't believe I hadn't heard about the Moral Revival. I'm sorry I missed it.

Yeah, I feel like it hasn't gotten a lot of press up here, or the Moral Mondays protests, which maybe have gotten a little more?

I've seen some press on Moral Monday, but not a lot.

That's awful, Tep. I hope the executive managing editor chews up that article.

Indeed!

I have been reading and hearing discussion that Trump's master plan is a Trump TV cable network, replacing or competing with Fox News. At the moment I don't have an issue with this notion because I can envision it crashing and burning and taking Fox along for the ride.

Ah, Moral Mondays I have heard of.

Laura, that makes a lot of sense (and yes, what you said).

I wrote the most passive-aggresive letter to the authors that I could get away with while still maintaining plausible professionalism. Asses.

Jesse, I can't believe I hadn't heard about the Moral Revival. I'm sorry I missed it.

I think he's in Milwaukee soon. Maybe I'll try to get up there.

In a way it might be better, Steph (though not less frustrating) that your boss is going black and white, edited or unedited, on this? At least that way it'll jump out to the executive editor and be clearer, I would think, that she's seeing raw copy, not that you or someone in the chain just missed some things. And at least you don't have to go back to author and argue each point.

Still aggravating as fuck though.

Now that's a revival I could cheerfully go to meeting.

Go, executive managing editor! Eat 'em up.

while still maintaining plausible professionalism. Asses.

Well, did you call them asses in a professional manner? Looking forward to the executive editor response.

I hope the executive managing editor rips it apart at issue review and they object, because no one -- and I mean NO ONE -- ever wins when they go up against the executive managing editor.

It sounds like the mid-level editors prefer to appear to authors like "I'm in your court, you shouldn't have to suffer like this, but the Exec Managing Editor is such an ungodly bitch that there's no arguing with her. But hey, I agreed with you, I'm a nice person." which is great of the mid-level editors but hell on the front line person like you, Teppy.

I get a similar thing in my work, we have strict policies about changing expiration dates, but if the customer bitches hard enough we can go to a supervisor to see if we can make an exception "just this once," and the supervisors always cave.

Yikes, Steph. I commend you on not telling your boss she's an ass for rolling over instead of supporting the people who work for her. Where you are so obviously dong your job, she should have your back.