Local TV Spelling Doesn’t Matter
One of the stipulations the CRTC should put in place if local TV ends up getting a bailout is to hire proofreaders.
You’ve seen similar CTV spelling mistakes back in May, but we were just sent a new batch courtesy of a local viewer. The errors appear in the on air graphics.
To be fair, nobody’s perfect, but there were four of them from Tuesday’s newscast.
If you think ChrisD.ca pokes fun at CTV Winnipeg, wait’ll you see this page …
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November 17th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
They obviously don’t have a standards bible that they go by. Pretty bad. It’s rare to find someone who is good with graphics AND can font entry.
On-Air graphics systems are so complicated these days, you really need to dedicate all your time to just that position.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:50 am
WOW! What kind of loser has the time to put this together?! SAD little life you have dude!
JB Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:28 am
The kind that gets paid to do it! It’s a tough gig having to watch TV for a living. ChrisD, we’re such losers!
WpgCameraMan Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 10:43 am
If CTV bothered to check on these things, they might have dealt with the Font problems after the first 10 or 20 errors, instead nothing is done, and 50 errors come & go. The real tell is next week. They’ve been spanked publicly about this issue, lets see if they take steps to correct it.
mikey Reply:
November 18th, 2009 at 11:29 am
first off, i think the name should be changed to she ain’t gettin it, cuz that was a nasty attack for no reason. the ironic thing is you’re posting that comment on a website dedicated to discussing local media so you’re just as loser-ish as the rest us on here, hey?
secondly, the timing of posting something like that is perfect considering the network and stations are all pleading to show how much we need them. cameraman is right, is this a good display of the quality of journalism we’re getting from “manitoba’s number 1 newscast”? if it’s noticeable things like spelling, how can we trust the information we’re getting from the source? as a crecommer, we fail an assignment if there’s a spelling mistake. we FAIL. we learned the hard way that if you want to be taken seriously in journalism, you need to be accurate 100 per cent of the time. it’s also a slap in the face to us hardworking students that strive to have a job in the industry, knowing how hard it is to get a break, and the people at ctv winnipeg obviously don’t care enough to check facts and/or spelling.
thirdly, i think what chrisd and jb are doing is great. i applaud their creativity and entrepreneurialism. isn’t that something we all strive for? being our own boss, do what we love to do and get paid for it? (or is it “payed”?!?!) you’ve got someone like chrisd who is well respected by media outlets and pr professionals all over the city that he gets details and comment about things that most media outlets don’t publicize. after checking out jb’s websites, he’s got celebrity interviews and radio shows heard around the world. that’s not something that just falls into your lap. they have both worked hard and a little sarcasm doesn’t hurt anybody, so it’s not right to discredit their efforts. granted, the laugh might be at someone else’s expense, but it’s also there to prove a point. there’s a campaign to save the station when blatant spelling errors are just a small blemish in the station’s reputation at this point. i agree that nobody’s perfect, but if any of those ctv’ers went to crecomm, i wonder how many assignments they failed. but at the end of the day, i guess they’re the ones laughing because they’ve got a job that most of us students want to have some day.
i will step off my soapbox now. thanks.
November 18th, 2009 at 7:58 am
In one picture they show that “James’ Mother” or whatever should be “James’s”. I was always taught that because the name ends in “s” you don’t need to add the ” ‘s ” to the end of it, cause it pluralizes it’s self.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
There might be a couple of errors on the part of the person who put the montage together, but the message is clear…CTV is putting their credibility at risk with each error. How can we assume that they “fact check” when they can’t “spell check”?
November 18th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
The traditional media’s big argument for itself over blogs is: “We’re better. We check our facts. We have editors.”
And how’s that working out for you?