Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Unedited content: the risks of crowd-sourcing-as-journalism

AddictingInfo.com - it's a site I often frequent, and link back to if the content is interesting enough. But.

I sent them an email this week, specifically re this article.

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OK, this has to be said: does Addicting Info have ANY actual copy editors? Do these articles get run by ANYONE with a functional understanding of the English language? Usually I just wince & carry on, trying to ignore the runon sentences or the got-lost-in-the-woods-during-a-dependent-clause fragments, but it's getting embarrassing. Really. This article is getting picked on just because it's the worst of the last 9 or 10 I've read, but it does seem to be an ongoing problem.