Proofreader wanted

[tamaranth]

Newspaper of the Year
Originally uploaded by tamaranth.

The Times is looking for a proofreader. At least I hope it is.

Exhibit A: today's front page. There's a box-out covering claims that Siôn Jenkins was violent towards his ex-wife.
Siôn came downstarirs, really stressed. He hit me around the face hard and my head was spinning with the force. I went upstatirs and hid in the loft, crying. [absolutely sic]

Exhibit B: the Times website, reporting the same story. (May be fixed by the time you read, but although the typos above have been removed, new ones have been added: prone to outbursts of voilent anger, for example.

This isn't a last-minute story: it's reportage on a case that ended yesterday afternoon. It's the front page. And it seems that the copy hasn't even been run through a spell-checker, let alone past a proofreader. This isn't your local free paper: this isn't a blog <g>: this is the London Times, Newspaper of the Year

EDIT: I found it on the train.

Comments

[jhaelan.livejournal.com]

You should write in applying for the post ;)

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

From the image, the bullet-pointed black on white style looks very tabloid ...

[adela-terrell.livejournal.com]

Its really annoying, because when we are trying to teach the youngsters about newspapers, bullet points is one of the examples we give as a clue that it is a tabliod paper. If the times starts doing them well, the world may well end.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It has ended. We just didn't notice.

[adela-terrell.livejournal.com]

Is that what that noise was?

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Nope, that was someone falling down a flight of stairs into a set of priceless vases.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

If someone erupts into voilence, it's curtains for you!

Gawd, even by my standards that was a painfully contrived pun.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

And here's the icon for that kind of pun.

[ajshepherd.livejournal.com]

What do you expect from a Rupert Murdoch owned newspaper?