Spelling in the news.

Nooooo spell checker. Huh?

[pendanticist]

Have you ever noticed just how many mis-spellings there are out there?

During the day, I usually get my news via the tube. Cnn, Msn, etc.

Sometimes I pay close attention to the verbiage and sometimes I mute the TV and just read the tickers along the bottom of the screen flipping up and down the lineup.

At least once a day, I see rudimentary misspellings [google.com] that blow me away. Maybe it's the rush to print, which is responsible for the inaccuracies. Of course, one can not know for certain.

Just for the fun of it, go to Google News and check out this little ditty.

Tribune
ABC News [ Deleted by me ]
ABC News - 19 minutes ago
Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice linstens to opening remarks....

I would sure hate to be learning English by reading it.

[AWildman]

AMEN! If I was deaf and had to rely on the closed captioning to get my news, I would be completely frustrated. Most of the time there are awful msspeelings, not to mention all the symbols they throw in by accident.

"This is CNM head line news. Ton**(*^(*^s toop store is about a!#l ~~ who feel in awheel."

It is not a wonder that kids can't write a decent essay or theme paper.

[rocknbil]

One of my first work study jobs was in a college publications office. This was back in the days of typesetting and pasteup.

We were putting together a program for a local playhouse, on the back was a list of sponsors. Fortunately I caught the typo of the listing for the local bakery, Puck's Dognuts.