Newspaper Death

[brad]

When I read blogs, I'm more tolerant to grammatical mistakes. But the AP? C'mon:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/19/ap-obama-gores-foreign-po_n_188770.htmlRead more... )

Comments

[ellenlouise]

You mean "tolerant of"?

Sometimes you see typos in newspapers, even the NYT (most often two letters reversed in a word, or some obviously extraneous letter).

There's a lot to proof there, they're on a crazy deadline, etc.

[lonecellotheory]

On top of that, with budgetary cuts coming on an almost daily basis, editorial departments are being asked to "do more with less" as they would say at the Sun in Season 5 of The Wire. Loading up fewer editors with more material to edit greatly cuts costs without resulting in less content. What it inevitably results in is a greater number of errors and typos. It's easy to chalk it up to stupidity or laziness or ineptitude, but the reality is that it's a matter of limited resources.

[kindapoetry]

Gah! That particular error is one of my major grammar pet peeves, too. Bleh.

further apostrophe-fail

[nibot]

whose country has a defense budget about one-six hundredth the size of the United States'

unless the Venezuelan budget really is physically enormous.

[casey]

Sometimes the software I use has bugs in it! Let's kill off that industry too!

[brad]

Yes, I support that.