Attention to Detail: The Star Editors Miss the Point
It has become increasingly apparent that in this day and age, checking over every last detail in an article before sending it out to the presses is becoming a thing of the past. Where have the days gone when journalists and their editors nitpicked over the tiniest details? When they would not let the smallest errors slip by? Seems in this day of Tweets and instant messages, there is no time for attention to detail. As evidenced by the article below that I found in today’s Toronto Star.
One would have thought that a case as widely publicized as the Rengal case that the journalists would have been able to at least spell the name of the victim correctly. Alas, this isn’t the case.
So, Toronto Star, which spelling is it? The one in the first caption, or the one in the second caption? Judging by the first mention of the name, it would be the second spelling. Too bad your editors don’t have the best attention to detail. If they did, you wouldn’t need to have the “Report Error or Complaint” link in this article. Or, for that matter, in any other article because you would have researched your facts and you would have got it correct the first time.
Stumble It!
