Saturday, October 23, 2010

Jeffey Klassen; Khan; He said Friday he was not consider himself drunk.; jan. 21

The two sentences/paragraphs above (from "Police officer says he did not assault Khan" on CBC News online on October 22, 2010) is how this error-riddled article begins. First there's the misspelled Jeffrey, and then - maybe in an attempt to avoid misspelling another person's first name - victim Kahn's first name is missing. It's Firoz and its only presence is in the article's photo caption. Then,

there is this dog's breakfast of a sentence. Finally,

jan. is an abbreviation of a month, and months are always capitalized, so Jan. it ought to be.

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