"Do these people still hire editors?" Topic

"Swine did flu cause woman's death"

Hardly funny in either sense.

This is the story link, but they'll have fixed it shortly, I'm sure: link

Yep, fixed it they did.

Modern editing is a new phenomenon. With cut and paste options, there is a danger of inserting the same passage more than once. In a book I recently read ("A Few Acres of Snow"), the same text appears on page 100 and 158, iirc. Obviously the editor (or the author, and his goof wasn't spotted -- hard to hire good help these days sort of thing) clipped the text in one place and inserted in a "better" place, and rather than "cut" it was "copy", leaving the original text and creating a redundant rehash. I thot it was funny, as well as annoying….

Sometimes these people read 60 stories a night, and that is in a short period of time. They also make headlines for them all. It happens that things slip through.

Do these people still hire editors?

No, nor proofreaders. Book publishers don't seem to, either.
-Kle.

Unfortunately, since I use BBC website as my main news source, I have noticed a gradual and steady decline in the standard of both their spelling and grammer over the last couple of years.