News Article Misspellings

[njpaddy]

I mostly get my news on internet sites from both sides. On-line news is getting worse. Not a day goes by without glaring errors. Right or left are equally at fault, so I'm not taking sides. I don't know if the reasons are AI, voice, no proof-reading or the failure of our education system. Sometimes they get corrected during the day, sometimes not. I thought it would be fun for members to post the worst ones we find. Maybe this belongs in the Clown House, but here goes:

Article today in the NY Post stated "the shooter fired from 150 years away". Dang, that's some shootin'.

 

[AndyPanda]

Worst one I ever saw was "Students get first hand job experience"

 

[DesertIguana]

Blame Editors, they use to clean up News.

 

[silverlifter]

Blame Editors, they use to clean up News.

Nope. That was the subbies job; they are mostly extinct now. All in the interests of cost cutting.

 

[Black Adder]

I see it all the time on our local news programs. They run little headlines on the bottom screen while the talking heads do their thing.

I work as a printer. I catch stuff all the time. Sometimes it's appreciated, most times, not. The best ones are when people get mad at you for pointing spelling/grammar errors out to them; I see it as doing my diligent job in my profession.

 

[Black Adder]

Article today in the NY Post stated "the shooter fired from 150 years away". Dang, that's some shootin'.

Must have been using the new Time/Space Continuum Carbine from Springfield Armory.

 

[ewk]

I regularly pass a billboard for a large fast food chain that says "Now there's bagels." Oy.

 

[Lightcs1776]

I used to think the news has been going down hill. Now I wonder if it was ever all that. Turns out that even as far back as the 1700s they didn’t trust the media.

 

[emwolf]

I worked in the newspaper biz for nearly 40 years. A lot of typos are due to spell Czech. When I was classified manager in the 2000s, I had a couple people I'd always check their ads. Because someone didn't know how to spell "immaculate," a common word in auto ads, spellchecker would change it to emasculate. Plus massage for message and many more.

 

[emwolf]

Part two. I work in tv now. My spelling is still good. Our marketing department came up with this promotion for morning news and printed up a bunch of posters that said "Caffinated News." Caffeinated is correct.

 

[DesertIguana]

Having actually worked in the MS & Dark side of the News Industry PT & FT 30 years I know typically a reporter would do a story, then Sr. Editor would proof, cut to fit into allocated space, so most of the time what a Reported submitted was cut down, re wrote, and finally put in space located.

Even great Novelists use editor to clean up their work, the quick and dirty bloggers, are another thing. Yes they make typos, and grammatical errors. Welcome to 2024, most of the great Newspapers, Journalists, and Reporters are dead, or retired.

 

[Doc4]

Article today in the NY Post stated "the shooter fired from 150 years away". Dang, that's some shootin'.

John Connor wants to make America great again?

 

[brucered]

I regularly pass a billboard for a large fast food chain that says "Now there's bagels." Oy.

This was a "Beefy" shawarma I ordered one day.

 

[rsp1202]

Could never understand why folks have so much trouble using "lose" and "loose" in a sentence.

 

[Rushman2112]

I don't know if it is still as bad, but The Guardian in UK was known for years, started by Private Eye of course(!), as The Grauniad as there were just so many typos.

 

[ctr]

The problem is broader than spelling, typographic, and grammar errors. Basic facts of a story are missing. Who, what, when. Sometimes all facts are absent.

Another challenge with news video segments, the broadcaster assumes every member of the audience knows where WKxx is located, or a community with a common name. Absent awareness of a wider viewing audience.

 

[DrStrange]

I regularly pass a billboard for a large fast food chain that says "Now there's bagels." Oy.

I talk like that.

"there's" is easy to say clearly and the meaning of it is unambiguous.

"There're " is phonetically difficult to distinguish from there their they're.

 

[luvmysuper]

I talk like that.

"there's" is easy to say clearly and the meaning of it is unambiguous.

"There're " is phonetically difficult to distinguish from there their they're.

Yep. Even Cambridge Dictionary says that "there's" is common and acceptable use in spoken format even for plural items.
It is likely that in an informal format such as a billboard, that spoken use would be preferable to written use as would be done in an article, paper or book.

 

[WetShaveVet]

"Gotten" is my bugbear. Sets my teeth on edge.

 

[ewk]

I talk like that.

"there's" is easy to say clearly and the meaning of it is unambiguous.

"There're " is phonetically difficult to distinguish from there their they're.

that spoken use would be preferable to written use as would be done in

There their they're @ewk, it is only a bill bored, so get off your heigh hoarse.