Forging new ground in mistake-riddled media
Sunday, March 16th, 2008Amidst 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.
