I've just been looking at the BBC News Scotland pages, and in the two consecutive articles I've just read there are errors.

The first one was about a 3D-recreation of a cairn. A photo caption says:

All the remains of the cairn now is a pile of stones

I can only make this make sense if the this is changed to that. But, OK, it's a small error.

So then I turn to an article about University of Edinburgh returning skulls to the Ainu people of Japan. The article explains:

The remains of the Ainu people – donated by Scottish anthropologist Dr Neil Gordon – were held in the university's anatomy museum.

Dr Munro lived and died among the Ainu while studying their culture in northern Japan.

Who's Dr Munro? Some googling reveals that the anthropologist was named Neil Gordon Munro.

At one level, this doesn't seem worth mentioning. But it's sad to see such a decline in standards.

by renebelloche

7 comments

  2. STV’s site is even worse. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation are shite. It’s embarrassing.

  3. Sub editors replaced with journalists self publishing and journalists replaced with Gen AI. Quality is being squeezed across the industry in pursuit of cost savings.

  4. Journalism nowadays is just half-literates catering to illiterates.

  6. I mean the constant attacks from all quarters and cuts in funding will result in this.

    As is always the danger when correcting someone’s grammar and/or copy editing, you’ve made your own error:

    > I can only make this make sense if the this is changed to that. But, OK, it’s a small error.

    Your second “this” should be “the”.

    TBF the gruniad have made a name for themselves with poor copy editing and they’re still going strong 🙂

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