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Old June 11th 04, 05:25 AM
Jack
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gatt wrote:

It's interesting hearing comments from people who say that anybody can be a
journalist, who themselves don't even have a high school-level grasp of
their own language. There is no apostrophe in "its major fault." "It's"
is a contraction of "it is."


So, if the subject were to be targetted
accurately it should read "Aviation industry screws up again," which makes
about as much sense.


Would a real-life journalist know the difference between "targeted" and
"targetted", or how to use a spell-checker?

All we ask from our reporters is a high school level of understanding of the
world around them, which is easily achieved before the story exists and has
nothing to do with deadline pressures.



Jack