Apr 18, 2009
The number of typos is directly related to the number of breaking news revisions.
A guest post by Kent Shaffer
Modern journalism is more about speed than quality. It has unprecedented typos, but at least I know what happened 12 minutes ago.
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Related:
• “There is a new economy for writing”
• I wrote their instead of they’re in a comment.
Couldn’t have said it better. But there must be a way to check quality while writing the news fast.
I bet I miss half of them, too, because I’m taking in more than ever. At one point, I knew what happened 12 minutes prior…but then I forgot.
yuor teh r1ght h3re~!
(how many typos are there in the above response?)
well, copy editing was never perfect, even with 12 hours instead of 10 minutes. :] but i am ten times more tolerant of online errors than printed ones.
i watched State of Play last night and it was (among other things) an interesting commentary on modern newspapers. not a bad movie.
I find news reports laden with typos to be hard for me to trust.
Oh my goodness!! Did something happen 12 minutes ago?? Quick, tell me!!