Monday, June 02, 2003 Where have all the copyeditors gone? Today is not a good day in the history of news proofreading. On the front page of Philly.com:
"FCC votes to ease media wwnership rules"
"I don't 'really' want to me mayor"
And the BBC's proofreaders were clearly out to lunch, either literally or figuratively, when this article on Mars came across their desks. It's full of grammatical infelicities; I'll only cite the most egregious:
"We already know a great deal about the Martian landscape. Images of its desolate and rocky surface having been beamed back to Earth decades ago."
Yeesh. Any copyeditors looking for a job in Britain?
