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Old 02-08-2012, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by gatherer47 View Post
Anyone else notice the error in The Sun's article on Dick Pesonen in last Sunday's sports page?In the article discussing the Villager's pro football career,it was mentioned by the author that Chuck Bednarik made the hit on Y.A. Tittle in that famous photo.That's the one that shows a bloody Tittle on his knees after absorbing a monstrous hit.It was not Bednarik that bloodied Tittle but was John Baker of the Pittsburgh Steelers.I emailed the sports department of the Sun but have not received an acknowledgement of my email nor seen a correction in the Sun.I thought at least I'd get a followup regarding my correction.There is a famous picture of Bednarik standing over a knocked out Frank Gifford.Oh well!
Is it possible that they need to check it out first before reacting and just haven't had the time yet! Just wondering, not making excuses for them!
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Originally Posted by NotGolfer View Post
Don't read the sports page...BUT....a few weeks back there was an article that had continual errors in the spelling of a word. I e-mailed the person and tried to diplomatically bring this to her attention. Never received an e-mail back neither. NOT sure what their policy is on this. I would think a journalism major would want to have correct grammatical writing!!! Have also viewed poor grammar not only in newsprint (not just The Sun) but also with on t.v. So much for edumacation these days!!!
That's been pretty much the case for many a years now, especially with the advent of the PC; spell checkers and all? The situation itself isn't anything that would call for a mention in the paper since there is nothing informational to correct, however it would have been nice if they at least rsponded with a thank you for bringing it to our attention, even if they didn't intend to do anything about it. Or... perhaps they got swamped with a ton correspondences like yours and the nature of the errors didn't warrant the productive time it would have taken up to respond to each of them!
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