PressEthic

Looking around on Gawker.com on Tuesday I came across a New York Times article with some fascinating red underlines. The story, New Orleans Police Superintendent Announces His Resignation was written by the AP and just added into the Times without anyone reading it over.

This is the beginning of the story - on the front page of the paper. Doesn't an editor or copy desk person take a read-through before publication?

I would never conceive of passing in a story that wasn’t clean. Spell check and grammar check in any word processing software would have taken care of half of the typos above. Are writers getting lazier and lazier? There's no excuse for it.

I checked the link today, Thursday, and the typos have been fixed. Thank goodness for the instant gratification of the world wide web.