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Bad writing in news?

Bob Stepno:

Newspapers used to be the only news source where we could find run-on sentences to put on the screen in front of a classroom and discuss as bad examples. Thanks to the Web, now television websites can be just as good a source of misplaced modifiers, awkward phrasing, missing parts of speech or misleading leads.

He then rounds some up. It’s also fun to search Google News for commonly misspelled/misused words or phrases:

Wreckless, seperate, mute point, intensive purposes, etc.

I shouldn’t throw stones from my glass house since I’m prone to spelling errors. But, hey, I don’t have an editor.

7 Responses to “Bad writing in news?”

  1. Les Jones Says:

    We’re all in tents and porpoises.

  2. Les Jones Says:

    Or is it fur all intense porpoises? I always forget.

  3. SayUncle Says:

    Are you taking me for granite?

  4. Les Jones Says:

    Ewe pacifically axed me that this passed weak.

  5. SayUncle Says:

    Yes, eye did. It is a cat ass trophy.

  6. cube Says:

    That is the most annoying thing in the world. When i type in a word to google (because i use google as my spell checker), and it returns 50,000 webpages with the MIS-spelled word on it. I know it is wrong, so i have to go use a dictionary on the web to figure it out.

  7. thedrake Says:

    Is 2 greater then 1. If so, than explain.

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