Gizmodo says Fake Steve Jobs Rips CNBC a new one??!?! Wow, what an interesting sounding article. Let’s see what it’s about.
Unfortunately, all mention of Dan Lyons, who played Steve Jobs on the Interwebs, disappears completely after the first paragraph of the article. And it’s only alluded to there at all after an “UPDATE”.
The entire text of the article talks about how Jim Goldman is a bad reporter and didn’t tell everyone about something or other regarding Steve Jobs and how he’s maybe dying which you should all STFU about anyway because dying SUCKS so leave him alone whether he is or not. But Fake Steve? No, you have to watch the embedded videos to know what the hell they’re talking about in that aspect.
Now, it’s not too unreasonable to ask someone to watch a video to understand what you’re talking about in a post. It’s rather unreasonable to require someone to watch a video to understand what you’re talking about in a post and NOT ASK THAT IT HAPPEN.
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Dear Newsblogs: Copy. Editing. Do It.
This is getting ridiculous. I can’t count how many times I’ve spotted a typo or grammatical error on a newsblog like Ars Technica or Gawker days or weeks after an article was originally published. Come on, people, I know typos and mistakes can slip by your eye before you hit Publish, but fix them when you inevitably notice them later. Even if it’s an old article, just press Edit and fix it. It’s not hard.
There’s even less of an excuse when you have 8 or 10 staff writers with editing privileges reading each other’s articles. Or when you make 5 updates to a breaking story and your third sentence still talks about “Aople, Inc.”