BBC website howlers - what have you found?

[GDL]

Is it just me, or is the standard of English on the BBC website getting worse?
Factual inaccuracies, sentences that don't make sense or are incomplete.

What have you found?

To start it off from today's story on Oscar Pistorius being up for parole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65123142
Contains the statement: "The former amputee recently met Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, as part of a mandatory process known as "victim-offender dialogue"."

"Former amputee"? How does that work then?

[anonymous-user]

Not on the BBC, but when singer Ben E. King died a few years ago, the news stream said ‘Benny King’
Made me smile!

[Eric Mc]

Most media outlet websites are full of inaccuracies - often caused by relying on spell checking and very minimal (i.e. none) proof reading. The BBC does suffer from this - but so do most of them.

[Riley Blue]

I agree, the standard of BBC English is appalling:

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

[Mark-C]

Proof-reading is expensive and slow in a world where people want news quickly and free ... all online news outlets have seen a massive decrease in quality over the last couple of years.

[Jonmx]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-576...
'5,000 year old man was oldest plague victim'

[JamesW]

Sky News isn't the only one.

Saw this on Monday and had to screen grab it

[ZedLeg]

GDL said:

Is it just me, or is the standard of English on the BBC website getting worse?
Factual inaccuracies, sentences that don't make sense or are incomplete.

What have you found?

To start it off from today's story on Oscar Pistorius being up for parole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65123142
Contains the statement: "The former amputee recently met Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, as part of a mandatory process known as "victim-offender dialogue"."

"Former amputee"? How does that work then?

That's not what it says though, it says former amputee sprinter.

[QIOM]

JamesW said:

Sky News isn't the only one.

Saw this on Monday and had to screen grab it

What's the issue here?

[Mammasaid]

ZedLeg said:

GDL said:

Is it just me, or is the standard of English on the BBC website getting worse?
Factual inaccuracies, sentences that don't make sense or are incomplete.

What have you found?

To start it off from today's story on Oscar Pistorius being up for parole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65123142
Contains the statement: "The former amputee recently met Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, as part of a mandatory process known as "victim-offender dialogue"."

"Former amputee"? How does that work then?

That's not what it says though, it says former amputee sprinter.

Yup!

[Getragdogleg]

Mammasaid said:

ZedLeg said:

GDL said:

Is it just me, or is the standard of English on the BBC website getting worse?
Factual inaccuracies, sentences that don't make sense or are incomplete.

What have you found?

To start it off from today's story on Oscar Pistorius being up for parole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65123142
Contains the statement: "The former amputee recently met Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, as part of a mandatory process known as "victim-offender dialogue"."

"Former amputee"? How does that work then?

That's not what it says though, it says former amputee sprinter.

Yup!

"The Former sprinter, an amputee" would heve been more better.

[sociopath]

GDL said:

Is it just me, or is the standard of English on the BBC website getting worse?
Factual inaccuracies, sentences that don't make sense or are incomplete.

What have you found?

To start it off from today's story on Oscar Pistorius being up for parole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65123142
Contains the statement: "The former amputee recently met Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, as part of a mandatory process known as "victim-offender dialogue"."

"Former amputee"? How does that work then?

Oh, the irony.

[Missy Charm]

sociopath said:

GDL said:

Is it just me, or is the standard of English on the BBC website getting worse?
Factual inaccuracies, sentences that don't make sense or are incomplete.

What have you found?

To start it off from today's story on Oscar Pistorius being up for parole
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-65123142
Contains the statement: "The former amputee recently met Barry Steenkamp, Reeva's father, as part of a mandatory process known as "victim-offender dialogue"."

"Former amputee"? How does that work then?

Oh, the irony.

But Pistorius hasn't got an iron knee...

[Monkeylegend]

sociopath said:

Oh, the irony.

Don't let the omission of a key word spoil a good story

[MikeM6]

QIOM said:

JamesW said:

Sky News isn't the only one.

Saw this on Monday and had to screen grab it

What's the issue here?

The picture made me chuckle

[EdmondDantes]

Seems like the BBC is following in the footsteps of The Gurdian (The Guardian)

[actionpotential]

Screen grabbed this one some time ago...

[Raccaccoonie]

The constant Tory bum licking is enough for me.

[TallPaul]

Getragdogleg said:

"The Former sprinter, an amputee" would heve been more better.

Schadenfreude

[Getragdogleg]

TallPaul said:

Getragdogleg said:

"The Former sprinter, an amputee" would heve been more better.

Schadenfreude