mike <xha...@gmail.com> escribió:
This is a problem with every news site. Check NYT or LATIMES or any other news paper.
This is a somewhat recent phenomenon. I've worked on several newspapers and have done work for magazines and books. Newspaper headlines were edited carefully just as was the copy. Staff would sit around and consider stories to go into the next issue and discuss both the stories and the best headers, often honing some excellent double entendres.
Editors, if there are any who haven't been fired, either aren't as well prepared or don't have the time to be more careful with their headlines. Copy--instead of being proofed by a proofreader and editor--is put through a spell checker, most of which make horrendous mistakes. As long as the readers don't care or demand quality, or pay for quality, it won't be there.
Who can spell or compose a sentence in the world of tweets anyway? Does nuance matter? It does to some of us. Would be nice if more news sources were as carefully edited as the Financial Times or the Economist, whether on not you agree with their news slant. NYT used to be. WaPo is better. Baltimore Sun was one of the best until the Chicago Tribune set its vampires on it.
Bing vs. Google is not the choice. Use whichever works and switch back and forth. One is not enough. Monocultures are bad, in biology and in computing. Neither search engine should "win", or we [users] lose. Vive la différence!
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