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Forging new ground in mistake-riddled media

Amidst the fascinating news breaking about the wreck of the HMAS Sydney finally being found, this wonderful opening vignette from an AAP story, reproduced mindlessly by The Age:

The wreckage of HMAS Sydney, sunk off the West Australian coast in 1941, has been found, Prime Minisiter Ken Rudd confirmed this morning.

There are a lot of derogatory yet fair things that people can say about bloggers, but I think there would probably be very few out there who comment on politics and are capable of getting the name of the Australian Prime Minister wrong. By and large I think it’s fair to say that if someone is getting paid to do a job, you expect more than a kindergarten level of quality control.

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5 Responses to “Forging new ground in mistake-riddled media”

  1. Kevin Rennie says:
    March 17, 2008 at 1:48 am

    Fancy not knowing how to spell Kevin on St.Patrick’s day.

  2. Damian says:
    March 17, 2008 at 4:11 am

    Good pick up. A spell check would have noted the spelling of “Prime Minisiter”, too.

  3. Matthew Gee Kwun Chan says:
    March 17, 2008 at 6:32 am

    It sounds like the media is having difficulties with the Prime Minister.

  4. Oz says:
    March 17, 2008 at 6:39 am

    I have to say that out of all Australian media The Age is probably the worst when it comes to typos in online articles.

  5. Guy says:
    March 17, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Yeah, it’s pretty pathetic isn’t it. Anyway, happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone.

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