Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Is it just me, or is the proofreading at the O getting lacksidasical?

This from the story of Evergreens new moss study....

"About 70 senior citizens gathered to exercise, drink coffee and chat in informal groups while outside, the wind and rain battered the building."

Read more: http://www.theolympian.com/2011/03/02/1563798/evergreen-experiment-could-lead.html#ixzz1FVFouoaA

Now, were the seniors drinking and chatting outside? Or should the sentence read..

"About 70 senior citizens gathered to exercise, drink coffee and chat in informal groups, while outside, the wind and rain battered the building."


Hmmm....
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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous98507March 2, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    The Zero has had "zero" proofreading for many years. The so-called reporters don't know how to write/spell in the first place and therefore don't even recognize that they've screwed up. It would take an external proofreader to get them on the right path, but the paper isn't about to pay for that!

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  2. AnonymousMarch 2, 2011 at 11:52 PM

    If a spell-checker doesn't catch it, nobody does.

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  3. sidrat38March 3, 2011 at 10:08 AM

    Somebody must have seen my comment..

    They changed it.

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