Granted, I sometimes don’t see my own mistakes until I’ve reviewed what I’ve written several times. However, I’m not a copy editor and don’t get paid specifically for my proofreading skills. Presumably, copy editors that work for news sites/papers do.
There’s a story today about the 3 Arab princesses getting kicked off a plane. I originally read this a couple of days ago somewhere else, but its on FOXNews.com now. As I was reading it, I was struck by this sentence:
When the dispute dragged on without resolution, the princesses and the two men were escorted off the plain, the Daily Mail reported.
I checked the Daily Mail version, and not a single mention of a ”plain” was to be found.
Yeah, I hear the rain falls mainly on it in Spain.
Seriously, though, the news media make mistakes like that all the time. I can’t listen to NPR for more than 15 minutes without hearing a dangling modifier. Those things are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
By: lawyersrighthand on July 29, 2007
at 8:03 pm
One thing that drives me absolutely insane on almost a daily basis is one of the local DJs doing the news. When talking about someone being arrested and/or charged, she says the person is “accused with [crime].” For example, she’d say “Michael Vick is accused with dogfighting.” It makes me completely bonkers when she says it that way.
By: litassistant on July 29, 2007
at 8:56 pm