> Maybe it's just me but at least from what I see personally there's loads of errors small and larger in the news these days. It's weird.
From what little I know about journalism (very little), editors at traditional media had a very opinionated stance about language and punctuation. It is to the degree that they're not merely finding errors like these, they're also suggesting rewrites for clarity, etc.
I, too, notice many simple errors like these that make me think that editor must not be as valuable a role as it was in the past. As the cost of communication dropped toward zero, an editor role becomes a more significant cost, maybe. Would the cumulative effect of errors like this one be enough to impact the readership of The Verge?
I definitely think the position has to have dropped in value, we're publishing more articles per day than before and most often online, in the land of instant corrections - there's no printing press to worry about. Though I would certainly appreciate if someone read them - there are plenty of independents, bloggers, etc that would catch this stuff in their own writing.
From what little I know about journalism (very little), editors at traditional media had a very opinionated stance about language and punctuation. It is to the degree that they're not merely finding errors like these, they're also suggesting rewrites for clarity, etc.
I, too, notice many simple errors like these that make me think that editor must not be as valuable a role as it was in the past. As the cost of communication dropped toward zero, an editor role becomes a more significant cost, maybe. Would the cumulative effect of errors like this one be enough to impact the readership of The Verge?