Orange County Register to Outsource Copyediting to India

[The Mockingbird]

And so it begins:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CA_REGISTER_OUTSOURCING_CAOL-?SITE=CAANR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[newz2me]

Best line in the article:

"In a time of rapid change at newspapers we are exploring many ways to work efficiently while maintaining quality and improving local coverage."

All the way from New Delhi, India....Nice!

[Bureau Chief]

Well I dont know about the OC Register but writing in general has fallen to new lows in this country. Finding an article, any article, on a news website without missing words or mispellings are a rarity. Missing words are the most common error I see and indicates cut & paste use without proof reading your work. Damn kids.

[Bureau Chief]

Heres an example right here that was posted by mighty morphing midget dykerson.

"The Richmond SPCA is also actively getting involved with this case, and CEO Robin Starr was watched the destruction."

Robin Star was watched the destruction?
Not to mention the sentence is ackwardly put together. A better structure would say:
"The Richmond SPCA is also getting actively involved in the case".

My point is that our language education has suffered in this country..so maybe the Indians can show us something. We (meaning our kids), had better start paying attention in school or other countries are going to take ALL of our jobs, with the exception of the drive through window at BK....opps wait, that has already happened.

I pretty much goofed off all through high school. I figured that I was headed for a job in the fire service and didnt need to know anything besides how to hump fire hose. How little I knew then...if I had known I would end up writing for a living, I would have paid attention...well maybe not.

[s'news]

It's a dumb idea. There's things somebody sitting in India won't catch because they don't know the area.

[Jane Craig]

My company (not in journalism) once outsourced some text-editing to India to save money. We had to bring the work back in-house. s'news is right -- without the necessary context, frequent errors are inevitable.

[MOCR]

...Missing words are the most common error I see and indicates cut & paste use without proof reading your work...

Yeah but it's those MISSPELLED missing words that are a real biotch...

:)