Sunday 27 December 2009

"FATAL ERROR"

A spelling mistake by an Education correspondent is as bad as a Driving Instructor failing a driving test, an actor fluffing their lines or Wayne Rooney missing an open goal.

Okay, you get the idea, but I did indeed manage to spot a glaring spelling mistake by BBC News' Education correspondent, Gary Eason. In the third paragraph, Eason spells the word 'announced' as 'annmounced' - embarrassing for any journalist, especially a journalist working for the BBC with Education being his specialist field. The mistake (pictured, left) has since been amended.

The print screen (above) was taken shortly after 0:11 on 23/12/2009 when the mistake was yet to be spotted. At this point, I also e-mailed Ofcom to notify them of the error. I did not receive a reply.

But later the same day, not only was the word 'announced' omitted from the article, but it was changed dramatically. The print screen below shows the updated version, which includes a different headline to that of the previous version (pictured, above).

All print screens come from the same article (and URL).

"It's true...and I can prove it!"

2 comments:

  1. Wouldn't it be fair to say that it's more a typo than a spelling mistake and something that was just missed by the subs? Additionally Ofcom don't care about the BBC...

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  2. Well, if you hold that position in the BBC, then it should be regarded as a spelling mistake I reckon. I dunno, I'm a bit of a perfectionist! I thought it was bad anyway!

    Oh, why don't they care? Who should I have told?

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