
Originally Posted by
TempBJ
That said, I stand by the comment that, as with many (if not all) industries, that there are
some lazy journalists out there. I regularly finish reading an article wondering why some basic questions were missed, as I'm sure you do (especially you considering your professional interest)...but I digress...

Some? Mate, there are shitloads of lazy journalists! I was merely pointing out that I wasn't one of them! Our local paper (an insult to all decent ones) is pathetic. In one recent article about the Pukekohe classic meeting, the journalist called the Britten bike the Brittan, Ginger Molloy Ginger Malloy, and the Isle of Man the Isle of Mann. Not to mention putting an unnecessary apostrophe in the plural of kiwi - kiwi's... And then a few days later the editor himself wrote a column where he talked of something 'complimenting' something else when he actually meant complementing. As for half the stuff you read in community newspapers, it's printed word for word from press releases or lifted from other publications.
So many times my husband and I will read an item and think "but what about this or that?" or "where did this happen?" or "when?" or "who said?" There are often gaps so big you could drive a bus through them! Half the time I don't tell people what I do, or I tell them about one part, like the editing. Sounds more important and doesn't make them spit tacks...
Yes, I am pedantic about spelling and grammar so get used to it!
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