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Has anyone else noticed that the language used in reporting nowadays is just terrible? Misspellings, incorrect use of words, incoherent sentences in newspapers, etc..., are commonplace. I find this is true whether it's a conservative or liberal news outlet. Do they no longer employ proofreaders or editors?
I've often seen misspellings and homonym flubs in article titles, even. I don't profess to have perfect grammar and usage here; but then again, this is not a paid employment situation. The quality of "professionally" written articles these days is often pretty bad--sometimes embarrassing (at least it should be for the writers).
No, they don't. So many newspapers are owned by huge corporations (Gannett, Digital First Media) who have decimated the newsroom. The layers of checks and balances in the newsroom are much thinner. Older reporters, educated in journalism schools, members of the Guild, with years of experience, are being shoved out. And while young journalists are key to the survival of the industry, there's no one to teach them in the newsroom - if the newsroom property hasn't been sold - because those layers of editing are gone.
It's terrible.
Unreadable.
Cringeworthy.
Obviously, I'm no professional but I don't get paid to type stuff.
Modern... uh, "journalism" is just plain bad and poorly written. On top of that, it's nothing more than opinions. They don't even try to tell the other side usually. Actually, the Fox website does, but we're not supposed to make them look like the legitimate ones.
Then there's that Twitter feed nonsense in the middle of the story. Can we just end that already?
It's bad enough that trained, supposedly educated journalists can't write a coherent sentence, so why do we have to put up with a bunch of shorthand written by drunken rank amateurs after an all-night kegger on top of that?
Also, would it kill them to edit out the profanity? I'm no prude, but that's just crass and unprofessional.
Already bad journalism+twitter feed= the downfall of western civilization.
I twitch wildly at the number of typos and grammatical errors I see in print news. I took a couple years of journalism, and sometimes giggle when I think of one of my teachers in particular, who was so anal-retentive about proofreading and justification that I’m certain he’s dropped dead of a heart attack due to the current state of bozo journalism.
Yes. The standards have dropped so low for those woking in that industry that it's hard to take anything seriously these days. All I think is "what idiot wrote this? what idiot edited this? what idiot actually did the investigation into this?" and from there I assume it's mostly made up, facts be damned, to appeal to whoever they want to appeal to.
Has anyone else noticed that the language used in reporting nowadays is just terrible? Misspellings, incorrect use of words, incoherent sentences in newspapers, etc..., are commonplace. I find this is true whether it's a conservative or liberal news outlet. Do they no longer employ proofreaders or editors?
We no longer employ quality journalists. Not in mainstream media.
We no longer employ quality journalists. Not in mainstream media.
You havent see anything yet. If Trump should win and take over. He will have his way with threats and intimidation, to broadcast only state controlled media. His agenda now is revenge. Policies will have to take a backseat. A vindictive, narcissist sociopath is no one to **** off. The wise Repubs will separate themselves from this.
The quality of writing generally has gone far downhill. Where are the engaging columnists like Mencken, Mike Royko, and Safire?
When you see a newspaper go bust, watch to see how many of their people go on to other writing jobs. Most of them go on to take jobs as government PR bureaucrats. From the old Seattle Post-Intelligencer, I know of only one who went on to another writing job. That was Phuong Cat Le, who went to the AP, and was an excellent writer.
Out of dozens of writers and reporters, only one. The others all went to various jobs in gov't bureaucracy.
You havent see anything yet. If Trump should win and take over. He will have his way with threats and intimidation, to broadcast only state controlled media. His agenda now is revenge. Policies will have to take a backseat. A vindictive, narcissist sociopath is no one to **** off. The wise Repubs will separate themselves from this.
Based on what? Historically it is invariably Democrats who have tried to intimidate and control media. Remember the nasty letter from Senate Dems to Rush Limbaugh's syndicator? (Limbaugh later auctioned the letter, raising $4.2 million for wounded vets & cops). Remember Obama's proposal to put gov't monitors in newsrooms?
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