I've seen so many simple mistakes and misspellings on supposedly serious news websites recently. Are journalists not taught basic writing and proofreading skills anymore?
As I understand it everyone is being paid peanuts to write these days so to make a living they have to churn out a ton of stuff which means attention to detail goes by the wayside
It's not the fault of the writer. It's the fault of the (non existent?) copy editor. When I see a blatant typo in the very first paragraph it makes me doubt the fact checking of the entire article - what else wasn't looked over?
No time for that as must get the story up for the clicks! Oh, and the pay is pitiful so they are all working a half dozen stories and perhaps ghost writing a book or two just to get by.
If they can't bother to copy edit their lede paragraph, I'm not reading the article.
I've seen so many simple mistakes and misspellings on supposedly serious news websites recently. Are journalists not taught basic writing and proofreading skills anymore?
That's the job of the editor. Which news mills like these don't really have.
As I understand it everyone is being paid peanuts to write these days so to make a living they have to churn out a ton of stuff which means attention to detail goes by the wayside
It's not the fault of the writer. It's the fault of the (non existent?) copy editor. When I see a blatant typo in the very first paragraph it makes me doubt the fact checking of the entire article - what else wasn't looked over?
I'm assuming everyone involved in journalism is getting the squeeze these days so I guess same thing applies there too
No time for that as must get the story up for the clicks! Oh, and the pay is pitiful so they are all working a half dozen stories and perhaps ghost writing a book or two just to get by.
Man I just read that post about lead/led/lede/LED.
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