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#2942143 15-Jul-2022 12:11

Nice typo on One News just now: 'dire and rescue service'. This kind of sloppiness is happening more and more, across all media.

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#2942144 15-Jul-2022 12:17

Rikkitic:Nice typo on One News just now: 'dire and rescue service'. This kind of sloppiness is happening more and more, across all media.

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Your Tagline is appropriate 😁

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#2944197 20-Jul-2022 12:56

3News are into time travel too! (Screenshot taken @ 1250hrs!)

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/07/covid-19-ministry-of-health-to-report-new-cases.html

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#2946766 27-Jul-2022 05:04

NZH headline today:

“Backwash Soup: Passenger Reveals Shockingly Dirty Air in Air NZ Cabin”.

That doesn’t sound good but it’s followed by an even more alarming sub-headline statement:

“The air in the cabin was reportedly twice the recommended limit set by New Zealand.”

It’s lucky the fuselage didn’t explode with double the amount of air in there than is recommended.

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#2946978 27-Jul-2022 15:44

New Zealand Herald, reporting on a CNN article about the Somerton Man:

Wellington-born Rachel Egan may be the granddaughter of the Somerton man.

Original CNN article:

DNA has also definitively put to rest speculation that the Somerton man was the grandfather of Abbott's wife Rachel Egan, Abbott said. The couple met when his search for answers led him to her father, Robin Thomson, who seemed to share some of the same physical attributes. Abbott says finding out there was no link was "a great relief."

Original says "No linked", NZ Herald says "may be linked".

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#2947795 29-Jul-2022 12:58

Today's bizarre entry is from the Birmingham Mail. It's an article about how someone's devised an "absolutely amazing" recipe for home-made ice cream. The recipe is not included. There's a mention that this person has shared the recipe on social media but there's no link to it. There's a single link in the article, captioned with the words "ice cream", yet it goes to a weather report.

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#2947835 29-Jul-2022 13:49

Stuff doesn't know their ins from their outs - or possibly their rolled from their phased. In Ocean clean-up removes 100 tonnes of plastic in the Pacific, both online and in the print edition of the DomPost, they report that:

The Government’s plan to ban “problem plastics” in Aotearoa will be phased out in three stages starting later this year, and will be completed by July 2025.

So it's not really happening then?

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#2947953 29-Jul-2022 15:41

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/300649574/new-plymouth-publican-in-birmigham-as-black-sticks-manager-for-commonwealth-games

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#2948031 29-Jul-2022 17:03

PolicyGuy:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/300649574/new-plymouth-publican-in-birmigham-as-black-sticks-manager-for-commonwealth-games

Googling for "Birmigham" yields a surprisingly large result set. Getty Images, for example, has 200 hi-res photos of it. And Ancestry.com has 108 records.

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#2950694 4-Aug-2022 15:09

Today’s Herald:

“Healthcare worker testing and wastewater results showed a "true decline" in Covid cases, said Dr Andrew Old, head of the Public Health Agency.

This is the fifth week in a row that the rate has increased. Hospitals remain under significant pressure.”

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#2953234 10-Aug-2022 23:04

For some reason RNZ has become particularly bad with typos recently. This article is completely garbled. Reading it, some bits are clearly missing completely and the text jumps all over the place. I don't know if it has anything to do with the reorganisation, but it is like no-one bothers proofreading anything any more. This example is the worst I have seen so far.

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#2953580 11-Aug-2022 18:04

Record Death Valley flooding ‘a once-in-1,000-year event’

Recent severe rains in Death Valley that flushed debris across roadways, damaged infrastructure and carried away cars are being described by meteorologists and park officials as a once-in 1,000-year event.

The arid valley was pelted with roughly an inch and a half of rain on Friday, near the park’s rainfall record for a single day.

So it's a once-in-1,000-year-event that's almost as bad as several previous once-in-1,000-year-events. Either they've got records that go back millennia, or...

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#2953582 11-Aug-2022 18:10

neb: Either they've got records that go back millennia, or...

…. reporters are too dumb to realise it means a 0.1% chance of the event occurring in any given year.

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996

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#2953590 11-Aug-2022 18:31

uncalled for..

article: Daniel Berc, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Las Vegas, described the deluge as a historic “1,000-year event”, with a 0.1% likelihood during a given year.

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#2953596 11-Aug-2022 18:56

I stick by my comment, as most of the media have ‘form’ on this.

(No requirement for any STEM knowledge to be a ‘journalist’)

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996

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