新闻界的前辈们讲过这样一件往事:若干年前,某报的一位总编辑很不理解地说:“校对拿着原稿一个字一个字地对,怎么还能出错?!”为给校对人员做出个样子,他决意亲自当一晚的“校对”。怎料到在他仅有的一夜“校对”生活中就出现了“见报错”。这个故事发生在数十年前,然而,那种认为校对工作很容易做,校对人员不需要太高素质的偏见,至今却依然存在于某些人的头脑之中,甚至不少校对人员自己也瞧不起校对工作。此类偏见和错误认识所产生的直接 The predecessors of the press told such a past event: A few years ago, a chief editor of a newspaper did not quite understand that “proofreading can be wrong if proofreading takes the original word by word!” The proofreader made a difference and he was determined to “proofread” himself in one night. How can we expect to see a “false report” in his “proofreading” night? The story happened decades ago. However, those who think that proofreading is easy to do and proofreaders do not need too high-quality prejudices still exist in some people’s minds, and even many proof-readers themselves Look down on proofreading work. Such bias and misconceptions are generated directly