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.

5 thoughts on “Forging new ground in mistake-riddled media

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

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

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