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.
Tags: Blogosphere, Ken Rudd, Kevin Rudd
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March 17th, 2008 at 1:48 am
Fancy not knowing how to spell Kevin on St.Patrick’s day.
March 17th, 2008 at 4:11 am
Good pick up. A spell check would have noted the spelling of “Prime Minisiter”, too.
March 17th, 2008 at 6:32 am
It sounds like the media is having difficulties with the Prime Minister.
March 17th, 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.
March 17th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Yeah, it’s pretty pathetic isn’t it. Anyway, happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone.