Friday, February 11, 2011
Enough to drive you batty!...
I see that the Kent and Sussex Courier were up to their old tricks in today's issue: miss quoting, sensationalizing, and miss spelling various key words in their report on last Friday's Tonbridge Has Talent, held at Tonbridge School. The most howling and unforgiveablen error they made though was possibly in their mention of the "Cawdrey twins," who were singing a medley of close harmonies and were alarmingly good at it for such strapping lads. Would they, by any chance, be the grandsons in the legendary cricketing family descending from one Colin Cowdrey, one of the school's most famous old boys? I'm told that at least one of the twins is not so bad with the bat himself. They were certainly able to bat away most of the Simon Cowell-like criticism from the judging panel!...
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pot... kettle...? with the amount of spelling mistakes on this blog I think those in glass houses should not throw stones Mr Richardson - surely everyone can be forgiven for a spelling mistake once every so often?
Also, what did they sensationalise? I thought it was quite a nice piece promoting the town?
Anon 11.39, newspapers are produced by professional staff that are paid to print acurate spelling and reporting like the names of people.
Readers expect this when handing over their cash. Blogs are produced on the fly and nobody expects spellings to be 100% vfor what is FREE.
ps I don't have time to put this through a spell checker!
but you should practice what you preach - write the piece in Word, spell check it, then add it to the blog.
And, what if the reporter had been told the wrong name of the people involved?
And what about saying it sensationalised what happened?
Me doth believe Mr Books has too much time on his hands...
I fink yuo shuold stik 2 seling boks van riting blogs
Yes I think the previous comment said it all. What you have is a one man band being compared to a newspaper conglomorate with staff of thousands! That said I do try to keep spelling mistakes down to a min. Perhaps you could do my proof reading for me in future! The whole point of this post though was to highlight the local paper's lack of any kind of appreciation for local traditions. It was only really a very light hearted dig at them. Don't take it so literally....
I don't think it showed a lack of appreciation for the event - that's going a bit far. They covered it afterall! I thought it was a good piece. Maybe Mr Books has got too much time on his hands afterall...
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