Newspapers Lowering Standards

[EvianBaby]

Has anyone else noticed an increasingly poor standard of grammar and spelling in newspapers?

I read the Mail online quite a lot and almost every article contains glaringly obvious errors, even to a simpleton like me.

One example I just noticed here:

"Chloe had been out on town with reality TV rivals The Only Way Is Essex clan but their didn't seem to be any animosity over the ratings, although the TOWIE lot didn't join Chloe on the bus."

(the fact it's from a showbiz article is irrelevant).

They also often repeat themselves in the same sentence or seem to go off track and the paragraph ends up making no sense.

I know they have to get articles out there quickly but doesn't anyone proof read them first?

Please feel free to highlight any errors in my own post. Although as I'm not publishing this to a national newspaper, I don't overly care.

[pvw1949]

It's not just newspapers that sometimes make no sense. I was visiting a junior school yesterday and while I was waiting to be seen, I read some of the notices in the corridor. One of these concerned the teaching of reading and writing and stated that 'although our pupils are expected to get things right, we do explain to them that sometimes it is all right to get things wrong'. I asked the teacher I was visiting if the contradiction was made on purpose in context with the statement, but was met with a confused look and change of subject. Was that a little over pedantic of me perhaps?

[jake-the-peg]

You mit like to hear what Stephen Fry has to say about it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

[rov1100]

I notice the Daily Mail is starting to put corrections in its paper. They say every edition of the Mail contains approx 80,000 words equivalent to a novel and written on the day. Although this refers to the content rather than spelling you can imagine the syntax can easily get errors in it. Especially now when word processors are used and entered by non typists.

[Zeuhl]

<<'although our pupils are expected to get things right, we do explain to them that sometimes it is all right to get things wrong'. >>

Sorry. Where is the 'contradiction'?

getting things right is the objective, sometimes getting things wrong is acceptable. What's wrong with that?