Looks like the Straits Times Interactive needs to employ a native English writer as an editor.
BTW, the Flash video ‘vodcast’ should be called ‘streamingvideocast’. True vodcasts come with RSS feeds (and are downloadable).
Adrian informed me that the Sunday Times featured my blog URL in an article that was sub-headed Thinking Men Who Blog. While I’m honoured an ST journalist considers me a thinking man, I want to add that there are many other thinking men and women in the local blogosphere such as Mr Wang. Incidentally, he has something to say about the forbidded outdoor demonstrations. A young thinking woman, Gayle Goh, shares her thoughts too.
But I digress. ST should stop focusing so much on blogs, bloggers and blogging, and concentrate on getting basic spelling and grammar right.
P.S. Just spotted another mistake in the vodcast description. Merriam-Webster Online says this about outcrys: “The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary.”
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Terence
/ Monday, 31 July 2006Hey, talking about editor oversight,
there was this photo of the miss universe in either sat or sun ST papers.
The pic was of Ms M’sia and Ms Japan(as can be seen by the words on their sashes), but the brilliant comment at the bottom was “Ms M’sia and Ms Taiwan”. Obviously the guy who did the comment was looking at some other place. Lucky wasn’t a pic of Ms China and they call it Taiwan.
acroamatic
/ Monday, 31 July 2006Heh.
They make so many mistakes, I should start a “Media Watch” category. Something like the “Media Watch” programme on ABC but just covering grammar/spelling/factual mistakes.
Adrian F
/ Monday, 31 July 2006Sigh…mistakes in the written form. Now I’m afraid to write anything down. What happens if I say ‘Equipments’ and ‘Stationaries’? ‘Thinking men who blog’- what if you were a woman? Thinking men…hahaha.
acroamatic
/ Monday, 31 July 2006I wanted to comment on that: the ‘thinking men’ bit. I found it strange that they used ‘men’ instead of ‘people’. It also struck me that the article was framed in a manner which suggested that most bloggers don’t think.
Speaking of which, fellow thinking man, your blog hasn’t been updated in ages. ;) C’mon, I promise not to let CMPB know that you’ve not done a day of reservist.
(Ooops.)
Qinz
/ Monday, 31 July 2006Thinking men… hmm.. brings to mind a whole lot of connotations. When are they going to do one on thinking women? Unless, of course, Xiaxue is counted as one, then I will graciously abdicate the stage to her. And perhaps lose all hope.
Btw, editors need to be shot – grammar and all. Not to mention lack of political sensitivity – check out the forum pages.
And not to mention my recent brush in with the ST makes my entire journalistic side twitch.