{"id":1397,"date":"2009-01-22T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2009-01-22T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T09:35:00","slug":"are-newspaper-articles-telephoned-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1397","title":{"rendered":"Are newspaper articles ‘telephoned in’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ask after reading this mildly interesting article about U2<\/a> in the Daily Telegraph.<\/p>\n

There are two glaring errors in it for a reader: ‘pedalling’ when it should be ‘peddling’, and ‘reign’ when it should be ‘rein’. Two things: a) spell-checkers wouldn’t have picked this up, and b) was the article dictated? I can’t believe the Telegraph would employ someone whose grasp of the English language was that poor (or maybe I’m naive on that one) but I can imagine that they employ typists who wouldn’t necessarily pick up exactly what the writer was trying to say. (Of course, the ‘typists’ may simply be electronic ones.)<\/p>\n

Perhaps I’m just having another Victor Meldrew moment. <\/p>\n

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