How many errors can you make in one word?
December 11, 2006
March 1, 2005
All the sub-editor had to do was read the first paragraph to learn how to spell it.
What’s on TV?
I assume that this won’t be on next week then?
February 28, 2005
I can’t stand sloppiness in professional services. Take journalism. In particular the person responsible for creating headlines (I believe that’s the sub-editor). As I heard it said the other day - if there’s a fifty-fifty chance of either getting it right or getting it wrong why do some get it wrong so often?
A minute on Google tells you it’s wrong!
Interesting weather
I’m moving house soon. I’ve done it very often before but not for the last ten years. Sorting through my ‘odds and ends’ file I came across a newpaper page from October 1996. I scanned the front and back of the sheet but couldn’t work out why I’d saved it. There was a tickle in the back of my mind that it had something to do with the weather page. Still couldn’t see the reason. Anyway, I put it back in the folder. I just got it out again … the reason is obvious once you see it.
This episode goes some way to explaining why sub-editors get it wrong. If memory serves me right, the weather was real molestie that day!
February 24, 2005
Actually a headline from yesterday. At first glance it makes no sense.
This is an attempt at a play on words with the name of a horse ‘Surge of Power’ - an entrant in the Launceston Cup.
Today’s headline
This could be one of those ‘why didn’t they think of it sooner’.
It is, of course in response to Steve ‘The Crocodile Hunter’ Irwin’s foray into the croc pit with his baby son under one arm and a dead chicken in the other. Lucky he didn’t get confused about what to do next.
Nearly missed this one …
Bern