Quality Assurance in the Media Needed
Aug. 24th, 2007 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wwcitizenThis is a post I made to the news website for www.amny.com. This is the morning newspaper everyone gets as they're headed to the subway. This morning, after the police activity ushered us all quickly out of the building (quietly and without question), I picked up the paper and ran through it. I never ever look at the sports pages because I'm generally not interested at all. But, seeing the picture of Pete Kendall (cutie!), I thought, "What'd he do today?" So I read the headline "Kendall gets wish". Then noticed that the subtitle was "Jets ship lineman to D.C. after long row". I wondered whether he was going to become a lobbyist for the NFL reluctantly, but maybe that's what he really wanted to do. but, the picture caption stated playing for the "Redskins," which fans and non-fans alike know is a team from Washington. State - not District of Columbia.
I know that on the surface it's a minor issue that someone wrote it wrong. But the larger issue is that there was ovbiously no quality assurance from the editors, the copyrighters, the printers, and possibly even the sellers (who really care the least). So, here are all the people (young and old) reading through this newspaper noting the incorrect statement, but doing nothing about it. I personally am offended that our media is perpetuating a baseline ignorance of correctness and attention to detail. Americans notoriously do not know where things are in the world, and the mistake in this minor day's news release will be ignored. That sort of thing just grates on my nerves.
I know that on the surface it's a minor issue that someone wrote it wrong. But the larger issue is that there was ovbiously no quality assurance from the editors, the copyrighters, the printers, and possibly even the sellers (who really care the least). So, here are all the people (young and old) reading through this newspaper noting the incorrect statement, but doing nothing about it. I personally am offended that our media is perpetuating a baseline ignorance of correctness and attention to detail. Americans notoriously do not know where things are in the world, and the mistake in this minor day's news release will be ignored. That sort of thing just grates on my nerves.
