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#3206930 16-Mar-2024 10:17

Yep. The other day I saw an RNZ article on rubbish collection that repeatedly used the wrong word. It kept talking about being able to put various items out on the "curb". The only occurrence of "kerb" in the article was when they quoted someone from a local council.

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#3206937 16-Mar-2024 10:40

Americanism. Bad enough but actual misspellings/typos/garbled text is worse.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3208583 20-Mar-2024 13:16

"Police make breakthrough in Gulf Harbour body in bag case" - Newshub.

Actually what they did was obtain a DNA sample from the corpse. Not a breakthrough. A step in an investigation. The DNA doesn't actually match anything so far.

Flat out lying to get a click. Newshub can hurry up and die as far as I'm concerned if this is what they call journalism.

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#3208608 20-Mar-2024 14:19

If you're going to use language like that you could at least post a link to the story.

The link I have does not use that headline.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/gulf-harbour-body-in-bag-police-obtain-dna-profile-of-victim.html

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#3208611 20-Mar-2024 14:25

@gzt: If you're going to use language like that you could at least post a link to the story.

I've seen many time a headline showing in the homepage does not match the actual headline. This specific article is one such case. Here's the headline in the homepage:

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#3208612 20-Mar-2024 14:27

NZ Herald on its RSS feed uses someone that is not Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the associated picture:

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#3208615 20-Mar-2024 14:37

freitasm: I've seen many time a headline showing in the homepage does not match the actual headline. This for example is one such case:

I see that with many services. It destroys trust with the audience imo.

I also remember this kind of thing many times from TV news back in the pre-internet days likewise on all the channels advertising an interesting story coming up in the news. You could watch it all the way until the end and it would be 30 seconds worth.

Heh heh. Just remembered I use to live next door to a guy who watched TV news every night. Three minutes after the news started he'd start talking back to it - "You lying c---s!" and he only got worse from there. Every night. I liked him actually he was not too loud and kind of entertaining.

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#3208930 20-Mar-2024 21:26

gzt: If you're going to use language like that you could at least post a link to the story.

The link I have does not use that headline.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/03/gulf-harbour-body-in-bag-police-obtain-dna-profile-of-victim.html

That’s the article itself not the front page with the headline that links to the article. My post contained a copy and paste from the calling front page with the headline. It may not be on the front page anymore as the website constantly changes. You think I’m making this up?

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#3208991 20-Mar-2024 22:41

@johno1234 I posted a screenshot with this so I think the discussion doesn't need to go down the personal path any longer.

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#3209176 21-Mar-2024 14:57

Not a headline but still qualifies as dumbest, I normally avoid TV because it's rubbish but yesterday got exposed to someone interviewing Christopher Luxon about KO evicting bad tenants (see the other thread for an example). It was like a broken record, someone would pull her string and she'd say "will no-one thinking of the chiiiiildren", Luxon would try and give a detailed, informative answer, and then someone would pull her string again and she'd repeat "will no-one thinking of the chiiiiildren". I assume she was told to do a hard-hitting interview and that was the only line she could come up with, Luxon was trying to have a rational conversation about it and then someone would pull her string and she'd repeat her line again.

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#3209373 21-Mar-2024 18:42

Behodar:

Yep. The other day I saw an RNZ article on rubbish collection that repeatedly used the wrong word. It kept talking about being able to put various items out on the "curb". The only occurrence of "kerb" in the article was when they quoted someone from a local council.

You can curb your rubbish but you can’t kerb your enthusiasm.

Sometimes I just sit and think. Other times I just sit.

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#3209386 21-Mar-2024 21:15

Behodar:

Yep. The other day I saw an RNZ article on rubbish collection that repeatedly used the wrong word. It kept talking about being able to put various items out on the "curb". The only occurrence of "kerb" in the article was when they quoted someone from a local council.

Perhaps they have an American writing for RNZ?

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#3209392 21-Mar-2024 21:50

freitasm:

Behodar:

Yep. The other day I saw an RNZ article on rubbish collection that repeatedly used the wrong word. It kept talking about being able to put various items out on the "curb". The only occurrence of "kerb" in the article was when they quoted someone from a local council.

Perhaps they have an American writing for RNZ?

Or influenced by one... there's a distasteful growth in Americanisms such as 'gotten', 'donut' and the like.

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#3209624 22-Mar-2024 17:28

I have an RNZ one from yesterday. I didn't post this at the time and it's subsequently been removed, but...

The original article was about an incident, and it stated that police were present. This was given as fact, and there was no reason to believe that it could be false.

Around twenty minutes later the article was breathlessly updated to tell us that someone on social media had confirmed the police presence. Ooh, aah.

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#3209742 23-Mar-2024 09:35

Yes, this is a bit sad, but does it need FOUR separate articles? And was the "look through the years" really necessary?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350223450/live-kate-princess-wales-has-cancer

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350223448/kate-princess-wales-undergoing-chemotherapy-treat-cancer

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/350223514/timeline-princess-waless-abdominal-surgery-cancer-announcement

https://www.stuff.co.nz/culture/350223531/look-kate-princess-wales-through-years

"Live, World Leaders Speak" also seems slightly over-the-top - at the end of the day, one person is ill, it's not WW3.

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