You Don't Say

John McIntyre, whom James Wolcott called "the Dave Brubeck of the art and craft of copy editing," writes on language, editing, journalism, and random topics. Identifying his errors relieves him of the burden of omniscience. Write to jemcintyre@gmail.com, befriend at Facebook, or follow at Twitter: @johnemcintyre. His original "You Don't Say" blog at The Baltimore Sun ran from 2005 to 2021, and posts on it can sometimes be found at baltimoresun.com through Google searches.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Maybe hire a copy editor?

Yahoo News headline: Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake

Comment on CNN screen crawl: Jewish lobby runs America

MSNBC: I-Team: Judge Married Woman, Suspected Abuser

WJZ-TV: Man Arrested For Sexual Assault On College Campus

Reuters: BOJ split vote raises doubts about future easing

CNBC: End of Mortgage Buys Form of Tightening: Pimco

4 comments:

samkwMarch 17, 2010 at 9:32 AM
"Sexual Assault on College Campus"? The image is rather confounding.
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CODMarch 17, 2010 at 10:26 AM
Good enuff fer gummint work:

http://census.maryland.gov/

I'll send a buck to the person who spots the most errors.
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Virginia MerchánMarch 17, 2010 at 10:46 AM
SHAMEFUL. :(
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Abigail C.March 26, 2010 at 10:38 AM
The online headline at the Sun today read "Complaint filed against judge who wed defendant, woman." Not quite as bad as the one above, but it still took one too many neurons to understand it on skimming.
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