Editing Giles Coren (section)

===Leaked e-mail to subeditors===
 
On 23 July 2008, ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'s}} media blog published an email from Coren to sub-editors at ''The Times''. Coren's internal ''Times'' email used [[profanity]], the use of which he defends,<ref>{{cite news |last=Coren |first=Giles |date=1 October 2008|title=Potty-mouthed and proud |work= The Spectator|volume= 308|issue=9397 |page=20 |url=http://www.spectator.co.uk/2008/10/pottymouthed-and-proud/ |access-date=22 August 2016}}</ref> to take issue with a colleague's removal of an [[indefinite article]] (an "a") from his piece, which he believed ruined a joke in his last line. Coren said a joke was lost in the change from "a nosh" (meaning [[fellatio]]) to "nosh"—a word derived from [[Yiddish]] meaning "food", which he doubted his editors knew better than he.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/jul/23/mediamonkey |title=Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs |work=The Guardian | author = Media Monkey |date=23 July 2008 |access-date=30 September 2008 }}</ref> ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' said the incident was "not the first time the critic has been caught out writing abusive emails to colleagues".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2455076/Restaurant-reviewer-Giles-Coren-abuses-colleagues-in-leaked-email.html |title=Restaurant reviewer Giles Coren abuses colleagues in leaked email |date=24 July 2008 |access-date=30 September 2008 |work =The Telegraph |last=Moore |first=Matthew }}</ref> The exchange was reprinted in the American magazine ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper's]]'' in October 2008.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/10/0082195 |title=The joke is gone |date=October 2008 |access-date=18 November 2010 |magazine =Harper's Magazine}}{{subscription required}}</ref>