knock; knok. whose their? ajc copy editorz.

Oct 03, 2008 16:50


A story about the new panda cub almost being able to open his eyes grabbed my attention today on ajc.com. This interest, of course, was distracted by repeated patterns of inadequate (or just lazy) AJC copy editing. Unfortunately, this hasn't been my first run-in with such a trend on ajc.com. And to be honest, I am fed up with grammatical errors ( Read more... )

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anonymous October 16 2008, 18:17:03 UTC
ugh. I hate when there are grammar problems as well! It's very distracting and I can never finish reading the sentence unless I've corrected it in my mind. You'd think a newspaper like the AJC would notice these things. That's quite dissappointing that they dont. I mean, it is their job to do so.

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ext_128183 October 16 2008, 18:22:48 UTC
I thought this was funny. Coming down the the mistakes of the newspaper. They should be able to catch something on the front page! That's why you need to get OTHER people to edit your work, because you'll read what you meant to write, others will catch the smaller mistakes.

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