Inner Editor
Best media corrections of 2018
January 05, 2019
CH-CH-CHANGES ON RIPTIDE
December 16, 2018
Here at Riptide we are always thinking about how to be more useful and relevant to our readers. So we are refocusing our news stories and op-eds on the environment, wildlife, nature conservation, land use, weather, education, transportation, art and music, photography, physical and mental health, food and drink, and generally all things that make the San Mateo County Coastside a good place to live. This means not trying to compete with local media in covering crimes and traffic accidents. So let's hear from you about these editorial changes. Send us your stories and pictures of life on the coast. To submit items, click the "Email Me" link on the sidebar. To submit comments, click the "Comments" link below each post.
REAL NEWS
December 10, 2018
BAY AREA TEEN WINS BULWER-LYTTON PRIZE FOR BAD WRITING
September 05, 2018
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
July 11, 2018
"Or take a stroll over to Ink Dwell, the new studio of painter Jane Kim, who specializes in ornate audoban-style murals of still wildlife...” (One Day One Place: Half Moon Bay, July 11, by Greg Thomas, S.F. Chronicle travel editor)
WHAT IS 44 + 66?
July 03, 2018
From The (San Mateo) Daily Journal, Letters to the editor, July 2, 2018:
San Mateo County Chief Elections Officer Mark Church opined recently that the June election had been "extremely successful" because 44 percent of residents voted […]. How sad that in a democracy where all citizens have an equal right to vote, fewer than half take advantage of the privilege. Do 66 percent of citizens subscribe to the bromide "I don’t really care, do u?”
(Reader Pierre Messerli caught this mathematically challenged letter.)
LOCALS BUY HALF MOON BAY REVIEW
June 05, 2018
PACIFICA JOURNALIST RENEE BATTI: NEW ALMANAC EDITOR
May 10, 2018
ARE YOU A GOOD COPY EDITOR?
January 27, 2018
New York Times standards editor challenges you to a copyediting duel.
GRAMMAR HELL
December 08, 2017
Read 'em and weep.
GOOD NEWS: SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN RISES FROM THE ASHES
November 08, 2017
"The Bay Guardian won’t be coming back as a weekly paper — for daily breaking news and independent voices, please visit 48 Hills, the website started in 2013 by Bay Guardian editors Tim Redmond and Marke B. The Bay Guardian will be making political endorsements, publishing political advocacy and opinion, relaunching Best of the Bay and the GOLDIES arts awards, and digitizing 48 years of archives and ephemera." BAY GUARDIAN
RIPTIDE REPORTERS ROCK
October 05, 2017
Riptide reporters Dan Stegink, Alan Wald, Big Banker, and Better Business Burro regularly share coastside news with you, our readers. If you care to join our glorious, unpaid profession, just ask.
JOHN MAYBURY, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
Summer of Love: In Case You Missed It
July 24, 2017
Not to miss: interviews with Peter Coyote and Scoop Nisker.
Apostrophe Catastrophe
July 03, 2017
Peter Loeb proposes a $1,000 fine for every "apostrophe catastrophe" (as Herb Caen used to call them) such as this whopper from Pacifica Patch: "A state report shows how much city officials are paid, and while some cities don't pay their mayor's anything, others pay big time..."
Language Hate Groups
June 03, 2017
Nightstalker: Bristol's Punctuation Vigilante
April 04, 2017
He seeks out and corrects misplaced apostrophes and other crimes against the English language.
Wordplay
March 19, 2017
New & Improved
October 30, 2016
Who? What? Where? When? Whiz?
September 27, 2016
San Francisco Chronicle photo caption (September 27) defies logic and/or laws of physics: “Jennifer Molleda looks at the blood-specked face of her husband, Alan Wakim, who had two bullets whiz by his head after going through his windshield on the way to work."