I certainly believe that the days of the printed newspaper are numbered. With handheld devices like smartphones, tablet computers, and e-Reader’s becoming more common place, as populations change, and the percentage of tech-savvy consumers increases, paper and ink newspapers face extinction as “quaint” concepts from a bygone day.<\/p>\n
One of my pet peeves though is online news – where the death of printed newspapers will lead – is that it is not as thoroughly proofread as the printed newspapers currently are. This is something I sincerely hope changes. <\/p>\n
Take for example this spelling of “Gary Ablett” on the Geelong Advertiser<\/a> website this morning:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n For a newspaper campaigning to help keep Ablett at the Geelong Football Club<\/a>, it would have been nice of them to spell his name right. I note that this has already been corrected – no doubt pointed out by irate Geelong fans!<\/p>\n Or this one from The Age<\/a> newspaper this morning, in this article<\/a> about a mural on an apartment block under construction on Melbourne’s CBD fringe:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Maybe the reporter needs to report to the building “sight” – part of RMIT University – and “site” a textbook on the difference between “sight” and “site”?<\/p>\n Lift your game chaps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I certainly believe that the days of the printed newspaper are numbered. With handheld devices like smartphones, tablet computers, and e-Reader’s becoming more common place, as populations change, and the percentage of tech-savvy consumers increases, paper and ink newspapers face extinction as “quaint” concepts from a bygone day. One of my pet peeves though is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[381],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-newspaperfail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}