Well one of the problems today is that news on the web has to be up to date,
so quite often a reporter will write and sub their own copy, with no time in between to forget the words they thought they had written,and hence they see what they think they wrote, not what was or is there.
It happens a lot in small regional papers as well of cours.
When, a very long time ago I worked for Popular Computing Weekly, I had to submit my copy for subbing and a lot of those who did this job knew sod all about computing. Thus it was not unusual to find reserved words and syntax
in program listings in Basic had been corrected so they could not possibly work. It took a long time to get these sub editors to actually stop doing
this. However when I worked for Micronet, things were a lot better as most
sub editors were also programmers or enthusiasts and knew about all this
stuff, so we seldom had an issue.
Brian
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BBC News web site last might where the flow text meant 'place' but it was written as 'plays'.
This is the second glaring spelling mistake I have noticed with 24 hours. Have the BBC given up subbing (i.e. sub-editing), is it just laziness, or
has the extensive use of speeling chuckers on mobile phones obviated the
need to learn to spell in plain English?
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