Errors elsewhere in the world

As one of my former students' thesis pointed out, it's the speed of on-line journalism that makes it prone to errors. In their rush to have something posted, they often don't proofread carefully, thus the abundance of spelling, grammar and factual errors.

I've pointed out a couple of them, particularly from spot.ph and some other on-line news sources in the Philippines. But it turns out that even prestigious global on-line publications fall in the same trap.



Take this Huffington Post article, for example. Unless there's a "me-too" designer who's aping the queen of jersey and soft draping, I would think that Donna Karan made this dress worn by Emmy Rossum. Now the question is, who is Donna Karen?

On-line publications should really hire more proofreaders. At least it'll help them commit less mistakes.