See if you can spot the mistake in the first sentence of today’s Chronicle editorial:
Last weekend, as Hurricane Ike buffeted Southeast Texas, another massive storm pummeled Wall Street, leaving financial institutions reeling and triggering the most precipitous drop in the stock market since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 9, 2001.
Wow.
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September 9th? It was September 11th…the Crummycycle is always a day late and a dollar short, but now it is too days early…poor proofreading.
That should have read two instead of too…
It’s o.k. - we all know what the real date was - 9/11. It is too early.
A typo? Maybe. 9 and 11 aren’t close to each other on the keyboard.
There’s not an open comments this a.m. so I am posting this here. The WSJ, has a good article by Carl Rove, concerning the polls and Obama’s campaign.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122169427700049941.html
Does the Chron even employ anyone to proof read anything? Does their writer even have have a basic knowledge of general facts?
No wonder they find it difficult to sell rags..errr..papers.
We keep noticing familiar bylines vanishing to be replaced by complete strangers, probably pool reporters and maybe even interns who haven’t yet graduated from J school. I think J school skips composition, grammar, punctuation, spelling etc. these days in favor of slanting articles to promote your or your paper’s pet causes…. And of course the editorials are anonymous.
Maybe the writer was born after 9/11?
I thought the big selling feature of the MSM was their legions of fact-checkers and editors to cull out and correct mistakes and other errors.
It’s a run-on sentence.
Is that really how you spell precipitous?
Maybe be was goint to write it in numbers like 9/11 and somebody changed it at the last and left the wrong number. Still though that’s a pretty bad thing to miss…
“December 4, 1941; a date which will live in infamy”
#11 - That’s right - my aunt and uncle got married on that day and look what happened afterwards!
But the keyboard doesn’t have an 11 key, the numbers only go up to 9.
I would love to see the Comical start identifying their reporters using the D, L, R, C and W. For example, Rick Casey (D-San Antonio) or Lisa Falkenberg (W-Houston) would help clarify their natural bias and point of view. D or L would represent dimocrat or liberal, R or C would be republican or conservative and W of course would stand for Wacko.
Of course, if the entire paper is D or L, they could save time with a big letter on the front page …(C) Houston Chonicle (D-Houston)
On TV, the same standard should apply…MSNBC (W-LA)…CNN (L-Atl)…ABC (D-NY)….oh and lets not forget our local reporters Miya Shay (W-Houston)
Just a thought.
A good keyboard, like a good amplifier, needs to go to 11. For when you need that little bit extra.
Apologies to Spinal Tap.
I grew up in a small town and the local weekly newspaper was called the scandal sheet which gave information from each of the local towns. The information was about who visited whom, who got charged with dwi, information on the purchases of vehicles and real estate transactions. The information on local social events for each town was reported by a local housewife. This may be how the Commical is operating nowdays since the cost to get the news would be limited to a years subscription to the housewife reporting the NEWS.
Journalists march to their own drummer. They have a hard time thinking of anything except themselves. Obviously, they did proof read it.
Those revisionists will stop at nothing!!