{"id":10997,"date":"2022-04-15T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T09:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2022-04-15T10:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-15T10:02:45","slug":"caprine-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=10997","title":{"rendered":"Infant caprine security?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Ever since newspapers mostly did away with sub-editors some while ago as a cost-saving measure, standards of written journalism have visibly declined. Poor punctuation and clumsy use of language have become more commonplace. Sub-editors used to play a vital role, helping reporters to become better writers and thus journalists.<\/p>\r\n<p>Nowadays, authors are supposed to check their own output.<\/p>\r\n<p>Even with the best will in the world, it is sometimes difficult to stop errors in one&#8217;s own copy.<\/p>\r\n<p>That being said, there is an absolute howler in today&#8217;s online edition of the Shropshire Star, as per the screenshot below<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/04\/safety_kids.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11008\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/04\/safety_kids.png\" alt=\"headline reads Safety kids to be handed out to women in hot-spots for crime in Newtown \" width=\"600\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/04\/safety_kids.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2022\/04\/safety_kids-300x143.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\r\n<p>Unless young goats really are to used to promote the safety of Newtown&#8217;s women and girls, which is not readily apparent from the subsequent copy, one would think that checking a headline before hitting the &#8216;<em>Publish<\/em> is a skill that should be taught on journalism courses. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n<p>The headline has since been corrected.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since newspapers mostly did away with sub-editors some while ago as a cost-saving measure, standards of written journalism have visibly declined. Poor punctuation and clumsy use of language have become more commonplace. Sub-editors used to play a vital role, helping reporters to become better writers and thus journalists. Nowadays, authors are supposed to check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17],"tags":[16,22,33],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11017,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}