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News Media Illiteracy andIdiocy
By encinoman
Here are three headlines from June 11 (today) and June 10, 2009. The first two are from NBCLosAngeles.com, the third from the San Jose Mercury News.
Tim Donaghy Kneecaped By &;Mobster&; in Prison
Is that like a prison hookup thing, when your beloved makes you a nice cape for your knee?
Miss Califonia USA&;s Firing Deja Vu All Over Again
Now the phone companies are running beauty contests?
Skelton near Tahoe is man missing since 2006
I can&;t do any better than a SF Chronicle poster, who asked if it was &;Red Skelton.&;
The truth is that this isn&;t funny anymore. There&;s no excuse for not running a spell check before posting a news story or headline. The reality is that we get the news media we deserve; how many viewers (&;readers&;) these days would spot these errors?
Tags: age-of-illiteracy, death-of-copyediting, media-incompetence
This entry was posted on June 12, 2009 at 1:13 am and is filed under Incompetent-news-outlets.
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