Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Grisly journalism

I saw the above on a FAIL Blog post this morning. While the fail focused on crime scene investigators, the first thing I noticed was that grizzly should be grisly. My search for the actual article to screen capture the error in its native habitat came up empty, but

I found a different error in a slightly different paragraph (from in "Police chief investigates 'most grisly murder in 35 years' before discovering blood-spattered scene is a horror movie set" on Mail Online on December 2, 2010). Blyth wouldn't have actually said "his 35 years" because he was talking about himself, yet according to the article that's exactly what he said. Also, did he say "of law enforcement" or "in law enforcement"? Click an image to enlarge it.

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