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DRIVE-BY EDITING: grammar

May 5, 2013WCE Editor Leave a comment

This CTV News headline—“Pilot program has surgeons catching lung cancer sooner”—had Cindy Marven confused for a few seconds, wondering when lung cancer had become contagious and why surgeons seem to be particularly susceptible.

Source: CTV News online, April 27, 2013.

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DRIVE-BY EDITING: spelling

December 21, 2012WCE Editor Leave a comment

CTV News online usually has high standards for editing, but, as seen in this November 21, 2012, headline, “B.C. MP calls for tsumani debris clean-up fund,” even the most astute editors don’t catch every typo. Here, the pesky m and n switch—in tsunami—escaped their notice. Photo by Stefania Alexandru.

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