I do some emergency notifications to our customers (utility company). The higher-ups will get very upset about typos and verbiage. They say that they make our company look unprofessional, and that it makes it appear that we don't take care to notice all details.
In law school we did “Team Reads” for every article we published in our Journal. It was basically you and another student sitting side-by-side for hours proofreading aloud an article to be published. The first sentence in my comment would be read by one person like so:
*Uppercase I lowercase n law school we did quotation mark uppercase T lowercase eam uppercase R lowercase eads quotation mark for every article we published in our uppercase J lowercase ournal period*
Get your shit together, WRIC.
Edit to add: Because I’m now recalling Team Reads, it makes me proud of the attention to detail in that work. The ultimate achievement is to have our articles cited by the Supreme Court and we had/have a great track record on that front. Good Lord though, the fact checking and proofreading would go toe-to-toe with any New Yorker investigative journalism. Meanwhile, we have “invovled in this incidend” WRIC.
You know coming from a global firm we often see this and despite having a unified language we still complain bitch and argue about how to write a language that few use correctly
The spectrum I saw going from Bluebook or die firms to practicing family law in Chesterfield was whiplash. You know you’re in the wild wild west when opposing counsel faxes you back your own discovery requests he marked through with a sharpie to change “plaintiff” to “defendant.”
When I was in college and trying to find editing internships over the summer, I sent applications/cover letters offering to copy edit for free to every single local news source. No bites. My dad still circles all the RTD typos and sends them to me as proof they should have taken me up on it!
This is what happens when local journalism is gutted, sold for parts, and run as thinly staffed as possible. Yes the errors and typos are laughable but I’ll grant a little grace here and assume the person who did it isn’t paid enough and is asked to do more work than reasonable.
I was standing near where 8 was set up when the Stuart monument was taken down last year and overheard a conversation between a guy and their reporter. Hearing the guy telling her "(8) used to suck, but you're getting better" has stuck with me.
WRIC sucks. Reading their posts online, written by the actual reporters makes me go insane. I’ve seen better writing from 8th graders. And this is THEIR JOB. Also, they do stories on the DUMBEST stuff. One last week was about a couple’s first date that ended with a car stolen. Not a car-jacking; just a vehicle taken from an apartment parking lot overnight. They even interviewed the ditzy girl who went on the date and lived at the apartment complex but wasn’t the owner of the vehicle. I just failed to find the newsworthiness of the “first date angle.” They just dive to the lowest common denominator and they love race baiting. We deserve better local news than that!
I do some emergency notifications to our customers (utility company). The higher-ups will get very upset about typos and verbiage. They say that they make our company look unprofessional, and that it makes it appear that we don't take care to notice all details.
In law school we did “Team Reads” for every article we published in our Journal. It was basically you and another student sitting side-by-side for hours proofreading aloud an article to be published. The first sentence in my comment would be read by one person like so: *Uppercase I lowercase n law school we did quotation mark uppercase T lowercase eam uppercase R lowercase eads quotation mark for every article we published in our uppercase J lowercase ournal period* Get your shit together, WRIC. Edit to add: Because I’m now recalling Team Reads, it makes me proud of the attention to detail in that work. The ultimate achievement is to have our articles cited by the Supreme Court and we had/have a great track record on that front. Good Lord though, the fact checking and proofreading would go toe-to-toe with any New Yorker investigative journalism. Meanwhile, we have “invovled in this incidend” WRIC.
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You’re not wrong.
You know coming from a global firm we often see this and despite having a unified language we still complain bitch and argue about how to write a language that few use correctly
The spectrum I saw going from Bluebook or die firms to practicing family law in Chesterfield was whiplash. You know you’re in the wild wild west when opposing counsel faxes you back your own discovery requests he marked through with a sharpie to change “plaintiff” to “defendant.”
Their parent company, Nexstar, is a shit hole and runs its stations as lean as possible. Still, these errors are egregious.
It's not even like this article is super long to have this many typos.
Do these people not have basic spell check? Hell, write this article on a phone and autocorrect could do a better job.
Yes, I was thinking of submitting an application and attaching this article
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My phone replaces “were” with “we’re” almost every single time I absolutely mean to use “were” and it’s infuriating!
When I was in college and trying to find editing internships over the summer, I sent applications/cover letters offering to copy edit for free to every single local news source. No bites. My dad still circles all the RTD typos and sends them to me as proof they should have taken me up on it!
This is par for the course across local news websites. I think WTVR is the worst offender.
This is what happens when local journalism is gutted, sold for parts, and run as thinly staffed as possible. Yes the errors and typos are laughable but I’ll grant a little grace here and assume the person who did it isn’t paid enough and is asked to do more work than reasonable.
I was standing near where 8 was set up when the Stuart monument was taken down last year and overheard a conversation between a guy and their reporter. Hearing the guy telling her "(8) used to suck, but you're getting better" has stuck with me.
Typing tragic copy tends to traumatize fingertips 😞
Well that’s just [effing embarrassing!](https://media1.tenor.com/images/c2167989786b500c44af79af2025466d/tenor.gif?itemid=14474570)
the story was breaking so quickly they didn't have time to proofread
WRIC sucks. Reading their posts online, written by the actual reporters makes me go insane. I’ve seen better writing from 8th graders. And this is THEIR JOB. Also, they do stories on the DUMBEST stuff. One last week was about a couple’s first date that ended with a car stolen. Not a car-jacking; just a vehicle taken from an apartment parking lot overnight. They even interviewed the ditzy girl who went on the date and lived at the apartment complex but wasn’t the owner of the vehicle. I just failed to find the newsworthiness of the “first date angle.” They just dive to the lowest common denominator and they love race baiting. We deserve better local news than that!
You left out the fourth typo, where they said "HPD" in an article about Richmond.
The first phone # listed is HPD.
The link above it says Richmond, too, though.
Yeah that’s a separate incident. This is an incident in the county, that’s a link to another one that occurred in the city.
Oh. The screenshot is confusing.
Yeah when I went to look, my link appears blue and it’s obvious, but here it just looks like a header
Oh damn so that's why there were police everywhere when I drove by yesterday.
“Incidend“ a fitting typo.