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ABC&;s Spelling Error: Journalism&;sDecline
By encinoman
The copy editor and the fact checker are no more. Also no more, sadly, is proper spelling, attention to detail and just basic accuracy. Take today&;s ABCNEWS.COM story about the Montecito fires&;please. That&;s Montecito, ABC&;not &;Monticeto.&; In October an LA Times writer referred to an interview subject keeping a pair of &;Ford Malibus&; in his front yard. There&;s lots more of this every day. After an outcry from the readers, they fixed the Montecito story, but as one wrote, &;The town is Montecito, not Monticeto. Spelling matters. In a previous posting someone asked whether the line editor was asleep. Nope. Probably didn&;t see that the spelling was incorrect. Watch the crawl on CNN or MSNBC. During the course of a day there are scores of errors. As a nation we&;ve lost the art of paying attention to detail. That&;s why our economy is in trouble. We didn&;t read the fine print when we signed the mortgage papers.&;
Thousands Flee Tony California Town as Blaze Rages
Thirteen injured and more than 100 homes destroyed in fast-moving fire in Montecito
By MIKE VON FREMD and JONANN BRADY
Nov. 14, 2008
18 comments
Flames that ripped through multimillion-dollar mansions Thursday evening continuing burning this morning in the upscale Southern California community of Monticeto, near Santa Barbara. At least 100 homes have been destroyed.
Tags: copyediting, death-of-newspapers, fact-checking, Montecito, sloppy-journalism
This entry was posted on November 14, 2008 at 5:39 pm and is filed under Journalism, Publishing.
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2 Responses to &;ABC&;s Spelling Error: Journalism&;sDecline&;
Mistakes of the Liberal Media « Monday Morning Media Quarterback Says:
December 11, 2008 at 11:25 pm |
[...] that&;s no excuse for making ridiculous, egregious errors like mispelling &;Montecito&; or inventing a new car, the &;Ford Malibu.&; But those are innocent mistakes [...]
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May 26, 2009 at 4:16 pm |
[...] LA Times: John Lennon Buying in HancockPark By encinoman No, it&;s not a descent into the world of the Weekly World News, merely a copyediting error in Hot Property (below.) In other words, not deliberate, just incompetent. [...]
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