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[Jack Bennest]

Canada hails Cancun accord as building block for campaign aganst global warming
By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News December 11, 2010 3:02 PM


Read more: http://www.canada.com/business/Canada+h ... z17r7mosXh

I must admit I make mistakes on my news blog but I always think the Sun should be a cut above

[slowhand]

No disagreement. Although the real question in my mind will only be answered until tomorrow morning. Since this is a national story, how many Canwest newspapers across the country will publish the article in their print edition with the headline misspelled?

My personal prediction, er, hope, is that the answer is none. I can see no one reading the lead paragraph, but I would think that headlines are different, as they appear to be locally rewritten separately for each paper, based on the available space. Only the light of day will tell.

[Jack Bennest]

one from castanet in kelowna

Canadian juiniors hold 1st practiceSports 6:35 pm - 177 views

[Jack Bennest]

This one cut and pasted here from another blog we sometimes read....
AS has uncovered memos from David Basi setting out the shenanigans surrounding the Campbell government's breach of promise and sale of BC Rail. I'm much indepted.


It was inserted into an article by Rafe Mair and I doubt he was rushed enuff to make this miss steak

[RationalKeith]

Maybe there's a need for intelligent typos catching SW.

My first thought was to hire me, I'm good at catching other people's typos. But I don't make a very reliable trained monkey.

Meanwhile, I note that one cancon some of the people some of the people some of the time, but can'tcon all of the people all of the time.

Except for those attendees who CFACTS got to sign a petition to ban dihydrogenmonoxide.

[Paul P]

My first thought was to hire me, I'm good at catching other people's typos. But I don't make a very reliable trained monkey.

They'd probably want it done sooner than a month later as well!

[jon]

In my quest for stories on Easy Rock's heavily rumoured change to Virgin, I ran into this piece of a Toronto Sun article that almost undoubtedly made it into print, complete with obvious spelling error:
"Jason Roberts with Edmonton's EZ Rock said he can see why the CBSC would sensor the song."
ref. - http://www.torontosun.com/entertainment ... 81901.html

[RationalKeith]

So. Paul P, do you have a point or are you just being a _________ (decent people can fill in the blanks).

[RationalKeith]

Proof reading seems to be less these days.

One bit of advice is to curb automatic spelling correction features in word processors including in email. It takes some digging in Word and Outlook to get turned off.