Toomer Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 The Echo can't get anything right, in tonights edition centre pages, Saints Legends, there is a picture of Mick Channon with the caption, on the ball Jose Fonte against Walsall, wonder how many more cock ups I will find when I get round to reading it.
eurosaint Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 The Echo can't get anything right, in tonights edition centre pages, Saints Legends, there is a picture of Mick Channon with the caption, on the ball Jose Fonte against Walsall, wonder how many more cock ups I will find when I get round to reading it. I feel sure that you will keep us informed !
Fitzhugh Fella Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 I saw that and thought it sort of summed the Echo up perfectly. Very toe-cringeing error.
Alain Perrin Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 What a w@nky thread. I am sure none of you have ever made a mistake in your lifes/jobs/homework. Fair enough if they'd accused someone of being a murderer when they're not, but screwing up a caption is hardly criminal.
NickG Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 Not the biggest fan of echo or its editor but not really worth getting stressed over minor human error! What a w@nky thread. I am sure none of you have ever made a mistake in your lifes/jobs/homework. Fair enough if they'd accused someone of being a murderer when they're not, but screwing up a caption is hardly criminal.
Saint Samuel Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 Its a bit nit picky, having edited a student newspaper I can tell you its pretty hard to get every single thing right, the other day I was looking back at a 12 page newspaper I edited last year and spotted a few minor errors, always hard when you're up against a deadline to read every single word. It could've been a lot worse, my local paper today had a match report of Reading's defeat to QPR last Friday, under the strapline "Doncaster 0-3 Reading", mistakes will be made, better to make a minor one than a major one as Alain Perrin has pointed out above.
Quickfire Double Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 Whatever happened to the concept of proof-reading??
niceandfriendly Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 What a w@nky thread. I am sure none of you have ever made a mistake in your lifes/jobs/homework. Fair enough if they'd accused someone of being a murderer when they're not, but screwing up a caption is hardly criminal. No, sorry, I'm not with you on this one. It drives me mad when I see spelling errors or gramatical faults in a professional document such as a newspaper or letter. Don't get me wrong I'm not perfect and I often write like a school child on here, but it shouldn't happen in a newspaper. Also, I'm sure they employ proof-readers for this exact purpose. How can you miss something as obvious as that? Not the end of the world though.
JustMike Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 What a w@nky thread. I am sure none of you have ever made a mistake in your lifes/jobs/homework. Fair enough if they'd accused someone of being a murderer when they're not, but screwing up a caption is hardly criminal. yes but when you are selling something to the public you would have thought that someone would have read it first!
aintforever Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 No, sorry, I'm not with you on this one. It drives me mad when I see spelling errors or gramatical faults in a professional document such as a newspaper or letter. Don't get me wrong I'm not perfect and I often write like a school child on here, but it shouldn't happen in a newspaper. Also, I'm sure they employ proof-readers for this exact purpose. How can you miss something as obvious as that? Not the end of the world though. I work in a similar industry, it's easily done, especially when money is tight.
niceandfriendly Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 I work in a similar industry, it's easily done, especially when money is tight. It costs nothing to read your work mate. Even in this economy, that's a pretty poor excuse.
Saint Samuel Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 Employing someone just to proof read is a real luxury with the state the industry is currently in.
Toomer Posted 10 February, 2011 Author Posted 10 February, 2011 Fonte could become a Saints legend, Mick Channon is a Saints legend and a player that has given me and many others so much pleasure over many years. The Echo should have proof read it correctly in the first place.
aintforever Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 It costs nothing to read your work mate. Even in this economy, that's a pretty poor excuse. It's all about time and resources, look carefully enough in any newspaper you will find typos.
captainchris Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 Why do people still by Echo? This is ironic - right !!!!? Please say it is.......
kpturner Posted 10 February, 2011 Posted 10 February, 2011 why do people still by echo? this is ironic - right !!!!? Please say it is....... lol.
SaintBobby Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 Local newspapers are on their last legs. The Echo wont exist in five years time, most likely. The world moves on.
Hatch Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 this is ironic - right !!!!? Please say it is....... lol.
niceandfriendly Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 It's all about time and resources, look carefully enough in any newspaper you will find typos. Fair enough about the first part of your sentence, if that's true, but yeah I notice those typos in every newspaper I read and it bugs me.
chrisobee Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 Its a bit nit picky, having edited a student newspaper I can tell you its pretty hard to get every single thing right, the other day I was looking back at a 12 page newspaper I edited last year and spotted a few minor errors, always hard when you're up against a deadline to read every single word. It could've been a lot worse, my local paper today had a match report of Reading's defeat to QPR last Friday, under the strapline "Doncaster 0-3 Reading", mistakes will be made, better to make a minor one than a major one as Alain Perrin has pointed out above. No argument with that but in this instance mixing up MC and Fonte is simply careless, lazy journalism.
trousers Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 No argument with that but in this instance mixing up MC and Fonte is simply careless, lazy journalism. Aka "human error"
Wes Tender Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 I must confess that when I saw the title of the thread, I thought that it referred to this article. http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/saints/news/8843331.Saints_in_sight_of_scoring_record/?ref=rss Now this is a pleasant change from the Echo; something positive about the Club. But seeing that the thread is all about the sloppy journalism and the sort of silly mistakes made in their articles, then yes, I agree that it has become noticeably worse over the years. Even if they did employ a proof reader, one gets the impression that it must be some spotty youth on work experience training.
The Flying Finn Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 On the back page today, it says we signed Lambert from Rochdale
Wes Tender Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 On the back page today, it says we signed Lambert from Rochdale It's a suburb of Bristol. Didn't you know?
Raven on the wing Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 I think I would tolerate the errors in the echo more if they had were actually Saints supporters. How much more knowledgeable they would be, and then perhaps we would not have to read about the exploits of Exeter City FC every week.
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 On the back page today, it says we signed Lambert from Rochdale Truly unbelievable.
Toomer Posted 11 February, 2011 Author Posted 11 February, 2011 On the back page today, it says we signed Lambert from Rochdale I nearly spat my lunch over the dash of the car when I read that, I phoned Leitch and asked him if he read the article before it went to press, he said he did, I rest my case.
jawillwill Posted 11 February, 2011 Posted 11 February, 2011 Has anybody stopped to consider the fact that maybe it was in fact an intentional mistake in order to highlight the similarities between Mick Channon and Jose Fonte's styles of play?
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