Crikey

14 Comments

1. David Sanderson
   Posted Friday, 3 July 2009 at 3:27 pm | Permalink

   Death by a million paper cuts.

2. Ian Bryant
   Posted Friday, 3 July 2009 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

   I prefer old paper

3. Christine Johnson
   Posted Friday, 3 July 2009 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

   He’s mired by his own product. A bit like the king without clothes. Hartigan’s left without an argument on his fundamentals….if he has any?

4. santacruzoperation
   Posted Monday, 6 July 2009 at 12:46 pm | Permalink

   Hartigan is right. Newspapers aren’t dying. Casual snappers at HUN & Fairfax have just been replaced by “Send us your photo”. Once the resolution of phone cams reached 8MP, then the staff snappers will go too. Hey, AAP even issues it’s journos with cams these days! Hey Hartigan, I can string too words together and be really natsy. Can I do Bolt’s Blog?? Please, please!!!

5. Linley Hindmarsh
   Posted Monday, 6 July 2009 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

   The heading is correctly written: the apostrophe goes after the final s in a plural noun.

6. Bogdanovist
   Posted Monday, 6 July 2009 at 9:47 pm | Permalink

   I’m also confused as the sentence appears correct to me? Checking google…. here we go http://www.meredith.edu/grammar/plural.htm#Plural%20possessive

   Oops?

7. observer
   Posted Monday, 6 July 2009 at 10:10 pm | Permalink

   At 9.56 pm these errors are on your front page:

   SA’s opposition leader *has Martin Hamilton-Smith announced* his resignation.

   It’s thou shalt not kill for the new *millenium*: a new *advertisement campaign* is urging Memphis residents not to kill one another

   It’s been 35 years since Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote “Freebird”, the anthem *that has went on* to become the lamest heckle in the history of rock.

   But the Swedish company — having invested some $US4 billion *into* the country since 2000 …

   A Finnish couple *have* ended Estonia’s 11-year winning streak in the Wife-Carrying World Championships …

   Your website is riddled with basic sub-editing errors every day.

   People in glass houses …?

8. Firstdog
   Posted Monday, 6 July 2009 at 10:43 pm | Permalink

   Linley, Bogdanovist, read it again.

   Observer, you are welcome to make your own t-shirt.

9. Linley Hindmarsh
   Posted Tuesday, 7 July 2009 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

   Firstdog, enlighten me - looks like a simple reference to Mark Twain’s joke to me.

   [Firstdog says - Read each word slowly]

10. observer
    Posted Wednesday, 8 July 2009 at 12:33 am | Permalink

    12.25, 7/7/9 Crikey’s front page …

    Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev have reached a preliminary agreement on cutting both *country’s* nuclear weapons stockpiles …

    The technology to go further exists, but can all the stakeholders *unite for to break* web typography free from its Georgia/Verdana prison?

    The world of Wall Street can often seem impenetrable to outsiders, with its lexicon of insider terms like swing trades, bips and naked calls. SmartMoney explains *four of the most four* self-important nerdy financial terms.

    For all those who suggest that nuclear power is the only solution to climate change, writes Tim Hollo there’s a little spanner in the works.

11. Linley Hindmarsh
    Posted Wednesday, 8 July 2009 at 10:10 am | Permalink

    But if they’d put in the first s they couldn’t have fitted in the heading. Come on, give them a break.

12. David Sanderson
    Posted Wednesday, 8 July 2009 at 10:53 am | Permalink

    Linley, you’re being a little dopey. Not enough room has never been an excuse for spelling/typo errors.

13. Kirk Broadhurst
    Posted Thursday, 9 July 2009 at 6:42 pm | Permalink

    maybe “Reports of newspaper deaths are exaggerated” would work within the space constraints.

    People in glass houses should only throw stones at News Ltd.

14. observer
    Posted Friday, 10 July 2009 at 10:45 am | Permalink

    No, that would suggest more that the deaths were associated with newspapers … not that the newspapers themselves were dying.