“Once again the earth is about to spin off its access when comic worlds collide….”
That was in the preview window of an article I saw as a I was scrolling through Facebook this AM. An article on a pretty big entertainment news site. Written by a professional writer I imagine. Who apparently doesn’t preview his/her own stuff before pushing it live. Or simply doesn’t know the difference between access and axis. I’m hoping for the former.
For the amount of abuse people get on twitter for misusing its and it’s or your and you’re on what is basically a free, larger scale, non-professional, supposed to be fun(?) AIM chat session- you’d think professional writers would be more careful. Or that at least professional news sites would pay someone to check for these things before they push them live.
Thankfully, when you click through to the article it’s been fixed. And it is still not as bad as when people send in their resumes with such errors. Or on corporate websites. But for some reason, it just bugs the heck out of me when I see mistakes like that on anything that is supposed to be professional. So much “news”, so much is regurgitated on other sites, so many sites/outlets. So everyone is trying to be the fastest one to the punch. Or to hit SEND. Meh. There is a lack of quality control, or maybe just caring, that I find disturbing. Which of course is over-thinking a lot over this one silly mistake in an article that’s supposed to be fun anyway. But I do feel it is indicative of a larger scale issue that people simply don’t care as much about quality over quantity. Again…meh.
At the same time, I couldn’t care less when people misspell on twitter. Pretty sure half that blame goes to Apple and auto correct anyway :)
