Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 1689 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 10:49 pm: | |
Their online stories never used to be this shabby. http://www.clickondetroit.com/ news/11043254/detail.html "Genali GMC Sports Utility Vehicle" ? "If you have any information, call police." Which police department? Are we to assume only Southfield's? Got a phone number or are we to burden the 911 system? |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 3840 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:01 pm: | |
Well it reads to me as if some guy name Genali is rockin' a new GMC SUV... <<<laffin |
56packman Member Username: 56packman
Post Number: 1004 Registered: 12-2005
| Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:23 pm: | |
WDIV's tech help must be new as well, lots of F-ups in the "lets go to video" or "lets talk to _________ who is at the scene" |
Psip Member Username: Psip
Post Number: 1401 Registered: 04-2005
| Posted on Saturday, February 17, 2007 - 11:25 pm: | |
Just doing more with less. The mantra of todays industries. gotta keep those stockholders happy |
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy
Post Number: 4495 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 12:25 am: | |
It's a typo. It's not like we don't see them here and everywhere else in society. It's not an excuse but a reality of a rush rush society that wants to get the news out ASAP. |
Winstin_o_boogie_iii Member Username: Winstin_o_boogie_iii
Post Number: 8 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 9:06 am: | |
What would Ed Murrow say? |
Mountainman Member Username: Mountainman
Post Number: 127 Registered: 02-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 11:53 am: | |
The intern was just trying to use aliteration. Keeping Anglo-Saxon poetic voice alive in America |
Harsensis Member Username: Harsensis
Post Number: 174 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 2:00 pm: | |
I have their web page set as my home page. I have noticed a change in the last month that they have been doing more updates on the weekends. Before that the site would stay exactly the same allllll weeeekend looonnngg! |
Enduro Member Username: Enduro
Post Number: 56 Registered: 11-2006
| Posted on Sunday, February 18, 2007 - 2:31 pm: | |
WDIV is going down the tubes. That sportscaster that replaced Fred McCloud is just awful. "So, you guys lost the other night... What's up with that?!" "Is it hard to hold the football?" WTF kind of questions are those? Seems like the FoxAttitude of getting young, preferrable blonde females, qualified or not, on the air is spreading. At least you can kind of navigate that Click On Detroit site now. I remember it being a real cluster---- last time I looked. |
Gistok Member Username: Gistok
Post Number: 3664 Registered: 08-2004
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 2:17 pm: | |
Genali must be a Hindu word... the tech help folks in Bombay are doing the best they can!! |
Nainrouge Member Username: Nainrouge
Post Number: 150 Registered: 05-2006
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 3:22 pm: | |
They must be reading DetroitYes. They have corrected the "Genali", but still have no number for the police. |
Southofeight Member Username: Southofeight
Post Number: 48 Registered: 07-2005
| Posted on Monday, February 19, 2007 - 4:15 pm: | |
That's what happens when you hire junk writers with no news sense and pay them crap salaries. |
Birdwoman Member Username: Birdwoman
Post Number: 8 Registered: 06-2006
| Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 9:10 pm: | |
Journalists are getting completely sloppy. Check this out, where a reporter refers to a type of amphibian as "wormlike sicilians." Granted, not many people have heard of "caecilians" but if you were writing a story and Italians were lumped in with frogs and salamanders, wouldn't you think to ask? http://www.bootstrap-analysis. com/2007/02/losing_faith_in.ht ml |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 1713 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 9:20 pm: | |
yeah, Nain, but the other thing I found humorous was Sports Utility Vehicle (Message edited by lilpup on February 23, 2007) |
Wsugrad Member Username: Wsugrad
Post Number: 13 Registered: 08-2006
| Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 9:43 pm: | |
WDIV laid off at least one employee from every department at the end of 2006, effective immediately. As a former employee there for 3 years, I can tell you we were honestly understaffed 4 years ago when i was on payroll. Every time someone leaves (for better work, better hours and a more pay) their job was "phased out" -- Interns: the new white meat. |
Cheddar_bob Member Username: Cheddar_bob
Post Number: 857 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 9:47 pm: | |
Did you know a director by the name of Wills? |
Ravine Member Username: Ravine
Post Number: 688 Registered: 01-2006
| Posted on Friday, February 23, 2007 - 10:11 pm: | |
The newspapers are the same way. Fucked-up grammar, misspellings, sloppy (or downright incorrect) usage, etc. If you can't, or won't, pay for competent editors, you shouldn't be in the publishing business. I can almost accept that stuff on the TV news, because it's "live," but it's a goddam shame, the way print journalism has fallen. |