Does Someone Proof-Read The Radio Times?

[hellywelly4]

This week's edition speaks of Kiri Te Kanawa making her 'dubut' this week.

Not sure whether this is a 'new word' or not.

[Baldric]

New one to me

[VHG]

I was watching one of these "watchdog" type shows on BBC1 a few months ago and it was about gas and electricity prices and how to get the best deal.

Across the top of the screen came lots of "floating" phrases to show how complex the whole thing was.

One of them said "Gas Metres"

[Hypognosis]

No such job title as 'proof reader' these days. Smelling chequers putt payed too awl that, lung ego.

[baza]

how many gas metres to the yard?

[smoneybags]

Typos drive me mad!

[delboy3]

"Damming Report" once emblazoned across BBC News studio during live broadcast - but nothing to do with Hoover, Aswan, Gran Coulee or beaver, sadly

[boxtops]

I pulled up our local rag a few weeks back - nice pic of Dover docks, labelled "Folkestone Harbour and the Burstin Hotel"

[Zeuhl]

Last week's Radio Times was particularly bad

Whoever is responsible for final quality checks must have been on holiday

[joko]

hypognosis - of course there is!

my friend is a proof reader.

everyone knows spell checkers are just an aid not a replacement - just as the examples in your post demonstrate

[jno]

people do have proof readers, but not as many as they used to. So one letter was wrong in the 200-page Radio Times? That's a disgrace.

[Peter Pedant]

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when is she du'booing ?

apparently in filming she made the camera crew cry (hadnt heard a propa singer before)

[Yorky Lass]

On the final credits of Pointless it says All answers corect at time of recording.

[jim360]

Has anyone ever seen a copy of these things before they go through any proof-reading? I wonder how many mistakes get picked up. It's harder to catch them all, after all, if there are quite a few. So maybe it's harsh to judge the finished product without having seen what came before it.

[gness]

Posted this recently but can't resist again.
A magazine in Ireland last week invited me to a Halloween do where I could watch the ghosts and goolies whizzing around the village green...I wish.

[Peter Pedant]

sometimes - esp financial pages the sub-edz get bored

I was going to say there was a headline about "Bankers taking it straight up"
ouch ! really ?

but in fact it was "Inv banks looking for renters"

Oh dear in Manch the renters would probably look for them.....

[hellywelly4]

I proof-read our local Ruskington Crier - a 'spoof' newspaper, and I admit it can be difficult, but this mistake was so obvious.
I do wish sometimes though that I wasn't so pedantic.

[hellywelly4]

I just emailed Radio Times and have been informed that no-one else has commented on this! (Head swelling as I speak).

[joko]

you actually emailed them to moan about a typo?

what did you expect them to say or do?

i am amazed that you seem proud to have been the only person who could be bothered to write in ...

[hellywelly4]

I can't believe the answer from Joko. How to deflate someone, so unkind.

[joko]

why were you 'inflated'?

because you spotted a typo, and decided to email them and point it out?

seriously?