What is wrong with the SST?
On several occasions Adam has remarked on New Zealand media. A couple of Sundays ago he noted a dreadful editorial in the Sunday Star Times. Today the paper could not even spell a key word in the title of the editorial, as Adam read the print edition whilst waiting to see a doctor for some arthritis treatment.
So Adam looked up the Stuff web-site to see if he could find the article.Yet again today we see that the editorial is not on line. One does wonder at a newspaper where the editorials are not on-line.
What on earth is wrong with the SST? Do they not proof read? Can they read?
Never mind, Adam has other sources and here via the miracle of digital editions is an extract from the offending piece.
SST Editorial Headline 07/09/2008
As one of Adam’s readers noted in a comment on Adam’s Saturday Rant 6 September 2006 on the Quality of Life in New Zealand:-
Off topic, but this is also a country where the main pretender to being a ’serious’ sunday broadsheet (the SST) is unable to correctly spell the headline for its own editorial.
I guess the sub-editors were out somewhere enjoying the quality of life.
Remember this is one of the titles in a media group where staff numbers are being cut. No doubt such action will materially improve the quality of sub-editing.
Yet to be fair it is not just the SST.
Twice this morning at least, Adam thinks he heard a report on the Radio New Zealand – National News, at the end of a report on the All Whites, the announcer saying the All balcks would be playing in the Confederation Cup next year when clearly it should have been the All Whites.
Perhaps Adam’s comments about educational standards where not so far off the mark after all.
By the way for those who wish to point out his mistakes, Adam knows he makes them. He apologises, but he is not writing professionally and charging for the content.
