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It's like reading a news article and seeing horribly constructed sentences and typos. Like, this is your main job! I know there are a lot of English majors out there who would love to find work.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago

Dropped subplots is like reading a news article with sentences that are

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago

Great, now I have to find page B12.

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This guy has birds and a good morning ritual.

I got the results of the tests back. I definitely have breast cancer.

[-] msage@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You're tearing me apart!

[-] Toldry@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

they truly are ๐Ÿ˜”

[-] Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 years ago

At least for some of those there's an excuse of needing to get the news out ASAP, but there's no reason an in depth piece or an online article that's been up for a few days should be butchered.

[-] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Really though writing should be the least important part of a journalists job, digging through stories and finding the truth or understanding the complex strands of the story should be and that often involves going back and editing, restructuring, reediting, reworking and adding to it over and over again.

It gets really hard to see your writing with fresh eyes once you've got it so perfectly constructed in your head, it's super easy to miss awkward mistakes that have crept in - this is why editors were a thing but newspapers rarely bother anymore or the editor is too focused on political and social acceptable to notice grammar or word choice errors

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